Question:

I'd like to have a more accurate alphabetical sort for xpath. My current system only sorts the first two characters of the field... I'd like it the order the whole field if possible.

foreach(range('A','Z') AS $firstletter) { foreach(range('a','z') AS $secondletter) { $letters = $firstletter.$secondletter; if($item->xpath("/Entries /Entry[ starts-with( Field42, '".$letters."' ) and Field380 = 'Okay' ]")) {

The Field42 entries are lastnames (ie Brown, Brownstein, Brownwood, Byrnes,..)

I don't think you'll be able to sort using XPath <em>(its goal being to select data -- not sort it)</em>.

So, why not do it in pure-PHP :

<ul><li>First, load all of your nodes to a PHP array</li> <li>And, then, sort that array using one of the functions provided by PHP <ul><li>Such as <a href="http://fr2.php.net/sort" rel="nofollow">sort</a>, <a href="http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/function.asort.php" rel="nofollow">asort</a>, <a href="http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/function.usort.php" rel="nofollow">usort</a>, ...</li> </ul></li> </ul>