Wendell, thanks for your reply - much appreciated. 

I made the following
change to the
template:<xsl:for-each-groupselect="//indexterm"group-by="(@term.entry,text()
[1])">

<xsl:sortselect="upper-case(current-grouping-key())"/>
<divclass="index">
<span>
<xsl:value-ofselect="current-grouping-key()"/>
<xsl:text> - </xsl:text> 
</span>
</div>
</xsl:for-each-group>
The
transformation seems to find both the term.entry attribute and the indexterm
element content. Here is an example of the output:<div
<divclass="index"><span>weblink element - </span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>X title - </span></div> <!-- This is the term.entry
for 
the indexterm that contains 'title'. -->
<divclass="index"><span>Y topic
- </span></div> <!-- This is the term.entry for 
the indexterm that contains
'topic'. -->class="index"><span>Authentic - 
</span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>elements - </span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>image
element - </span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>title - </span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>topic - </span></div>
<divclass="index"><span>W
elements - </span></div><!-- This is the term.entry 
for the indexterm that
contains 'elements'. -->


The elements seem to output twice - once for the
element and once for the 
attribute. What change would be needed for the
template to output only the 
element or the attribute and not both?

Thanks
Susan
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----- Original Message ----
From: Wendell
Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu,
November 11, 2010 4:06:45 PM
Subject: Re:  Sorting using more than value
Susan,

At 03:46 PM 11/11/2010, you wrote:
>> I am having problems in sorting
using one of two possible values.I have a 
>>template that creates an index
using the indexterm element.  I need to be able 
>>to sort the index using one
of two possible values. If the indexterm doesn't 
>>contain a term.entry
attribute, it should sort using the content of the 
>>indexterm element. If
the indexterm element contains a term.entry attribute, 
>>then it should sort
using the value of the term.entry attribute. 
>>

 >> How would I be able to
sort the index entries using the content of the 
indexterm element (when there
is no term.entry element) or the term.entry 
attribute for the indexterm
element (if present)?
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