> Would you mind sending me your stylesheet? 

exactly as you posted minus the (:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:exslt="http://exslt.org/common">
	<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:variable name="temp">
			<components>
				<xsl:copy-of select="document(/files/file)/components/component"/>
			</components>
		</xsl:variable>
		<components>
			<xsl:for-each
select="exslt:node-set($temp)/components/component[generate-id()=generate-id(key('c',@name))]">
				<xsl:sort select="@name"/>
(<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*|key('c',@name)/*"/>
				</xsl:copy>
                       </xsl:for-each>
		</components>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:key name="c" match="component" use="@name"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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