In this:

<xsl:variable name="sItem" select="ms:node-set($sorted)"/>
		<xsl:for-each select="$sItem">
			<div>
				<xsl:value-of select="."/>
			</div>
		</xsl:for-each>

$sItem is a single document node. You want to address within it, something
like <xsl:for-each select="$sItem/*">. Do an xsl:copy-of select="$sItem" for
diagnostics to check what's in your variable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Robb [mailto:john_ok@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 July 2005 15:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to save the sorted nodes in a variable and
> parse it
>
> How is it posssible to save sorted elements in a variable and in the
> other template to parse it.Something like that $var/element...
> I am using the following xsl:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
> 	<xsl:output media-type="xml"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="sorted">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="data"/>
> 	</xsl:variable>
> 	<xsl:template match="@*|node()" mode="copy">
> 		<xsl:copy>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()">
> 				<xsl:sort select="@sector"/>
> 				<xsl:sort select="@subsector"/>
> 			</xsl:apply-templates>
> 		</xsl:copy>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	<xsl:template match="/" mode="main">
> 		<xsl:variable name="sItem"
> select="ms:node-set($sorted)"/>
> 		<xsl:for-each select="$sItem">
> 			<div>
> 				<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 			</div>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> But the part where I want to output the results:
> <xsl:variable name="sItem" select="ms:node-set($sorted)"/>
> 		<xsl:for-each select="$sItem">
> 			<div>
> 				<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 			</div>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> performs only once.And the value of the $sItem variable is
> just values
> of all the elements from the input xml.
> The xml is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
> <data>
> 	<item id="i1"	sector="s1"	subsector="u1">561</item>
> 	<item id="i10"	sector="s3"	subsector="u4">15</item>
> 	<item id="i22"	sector="s2"	subsector="u2">1234</item>
> 	<item id="i11"	sector="s1"	subsector="u2">123</item>
> 	<item id="i17"	sector="s1"	subsector="u3">165</item>
> 	<item id="i61"	sector="s2"	subsector="u1">346</item>
> 	<item id="i12"	sector="s2"	subsector="u5">3425</item>
> 	<item id="i2"	sector="s3"	subsector="u4">78</item>
> 	<item id="i14"	sector="s3"	subsector="u4">51</item>
> 	<item id="i21"	sector="s1"	subsector="u5">346</item>
> 	<item id="i39"	sector="s3"	subsector="u2">463</item>
> 	<item id="i44"	sector="s2"	subsector="u3">151</item>
> 	<item id="i89"	sector="s1"	subsector="u1">451</item>
> 	<item id="i81"	sector="s2"	subsector="u4">771</item>
> 	<item id="i36"	sector="s2"	subsector="u5">5654</item>
> 	<item id="i27"	sector="s3"	subsector="u3">362</item>
> 	<item id="i15"	sector="s1"	subsector="u5">234</item>
> 	<item id="i18"	sector="s3"	subsector="u2">73</item>
> 	<item id="i51"	sector="s3"	subsector="u5">567</item>
> 	<item id="i26"	sector="s1"	subsector="u4">17</item>
> 	<item id="i95"	sector="s3"	subsector="u5">67489</item>
> 	<item id="i13"	sector="s1"	subsector="u3">54</item>
> 	<item id="i71"	sector="s1"	subsector="u3">2</item>
> 	<item id="i23"	sector="s2"	subsector="u1">345</item>
> 	<item id="i7"	sector="s2"	subsector="u1">67</item>
> 	<item id="i80"	sector="s1"	subsector="u3">7754</item>
> 	<item id="i9"	sector="s3"	subsector="u4">343</item>
>
>          <sector id="s1">Sector 1</sector>
> 	<sector id="s2">Sector 2</sector>
> 	<sector id="s3">Sector 3</sector>
>
> 	<subsector id="u1">Subsector 1</subsector>
> 	<subsector id="u2">Subsector 2</subsector>
> 	<subsector id="u3">Subsector 3</subsector>
> 	<subsector id="u4">Subsector 4</subsector>
> 	<subsector id="u5">Subsector 5</subsector>
> </data>
>
>
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