BINGO!!!

Thank you very much David.

>>> davidc@xxxxxxxxx 10/13/04 09:43AM >>>

  Any idea why the "sorted_legislators" variable only contains 1 node,
  and not 151 ???

if you use xsl:variable with content rather than a select attribute it
_always_ generates a result tree fragment corresponding to a root node
(/) with children containing whatever is generated, so if you use
xx:node-set() on that you always get back a node set consisting of
exactly one node, / you presumably want to access 

msxsl:node-set($sorted_legislators)/*

David

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