> I am a total newbie. I am using this section of xsl.
> 
> ###
> <xsl:for-each select="Cabinate/Print/item">
> <tr>
> <td style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; 
> FONT-WEIGHT: 700">
>    <xsl:value-of select="Group"></xsl:value-of> \

It's more usual to write empty elements as
<xsl:value-of select="Group"/>

Your notation is perfectly legal, just rather verbose.

>    <xsl:value-of select="Name"></xsl:value-of> \
>    <xsl:value-of select="Draw"></xsl:value-of> \
>    <xsl:value-of select="Folder"></xsl:value-of> \
>  page: <xsl:value-of select="currentPage"></xsl:value-of> to 
> <xsl:value-of
> select="toPage"></xsl:value-of>
> </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
> ###
> 
> Is there any way to sort the xml source say by "Group".

Add <xsl:sort select="Group"/> after the xsl:for-each.

> Would sorting affect
> my orignal xml source in anyway.

No, XSLT never changes the source document.

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