How to sort a whole XML document using XSL
This is a variation of an identity transformation that sorts all nodes and attributes alphabetically.
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="no">
<xsl:template match="@*|node()" priority="1">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()">
<xsl:sort data-type="text" order="ascending" select="name()">
</xsl:sort></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy></xsl:template>
</xsl:output></xsl:output></xsl:stylesheet>
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