xsl:sort Element in XSLT

Vijai Anand Ramalingam
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<xsl:sort> Element:

Employees.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Employees>
   <Employee>
     <Name>Vijai</Name>
     <Id>1</Id>
     <Designation>Associate</Designation>
     <Location>Bangalore</Location>
     <Department>SharePoint</Department>
     <Experience>3</Experience>
   </Employee>
   <Employee>
     <Name>Ranjith</Name>
     <Id>2</Id>
     <Designation>Associate</Designation>
     <Location>Bangalore</Location>
     <Department>SharePoint</Department>
     <Experience>5</Experience>
   </Employee>
   <Employee>
     <Name>Rakesh</Name>
     <Id>3</Id>
     <Designation>Associate</Designation>
     <Location>Chennai</Location>
     <Department>LN</Department>
     <Experience>6</Experience>
   </Employee>
   <Employee>
     <Name>Kavya</Name>
     <Id>4</Id>
     <Designation>Associate</Designation>
     <Location>Chennai</Location>
     <Department>LN</Department>
     <Experience>3</Experience>
   </Employee>
   <Employee>
     <Name>Pai</Name>
     <Id>5</Id>
     <Designation>Associate</Designation>
     <Location>Chennai</Location>
     <Department>LN</Department>
     <Experience>3</Experience>
   </Employee>
</Employees>

EmployeesXSL.xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <html>
       <body>
         <h3 Style="font-weight:bold; color:Green;font-style:italic">Employees</h3>
         <table border="1">
           <tr bgcolor="#CCCCFF">
             <th>Name</th>
             <th>Id</th>
             <th>Department</th>
             <th>Designation</th>
             <th>Location</th>
             <th>Experience</th>
           </tr>
           <xsl:for-each select="Employees/Employee">
             <xsl:sort  select="Name" order="ascending"/>
             <tr STYLE="font-weight:normal; color:blue;font-style:italic">
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
               </td>
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Id"/>
               </td>
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Department"/>
               </td>
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Designation"/>
               </td>
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Location"/>
               </td>
               <td>
                 <xsl:value-of select="Experience"/>
               </td>
             </tr>
           </xsl:for-each>
         </table>
       </body>
     </html>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output: