XSLT sort by tag name and attribute value

Question

I'm a noob with XSLT, so please excuse my ignorance... I'm trying to sort a simple XML file by attribute value and tag name, but I struggle in accessing the value of the attribute. Here is a complete example:

<a>
    <b attribute="e"></b>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
    <c></c>
</a>

And the expected result is:

<a>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <b attribute="e"></b>
    <c></c>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
</a>

Here is my attempt to solve this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" />
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

    <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*">
                <xsl:sort select="."/>
            </xsl:apply-templates>

            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
                <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
            </xsl:apply-templates>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And this obviously don't work at all...

In the above example I want to sort the b tag by their attribute value but as you can see the d tag is not sorted by attribute value because it's another tag name...

I wonder if this is possible using XSLT... Do you have an idea?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE----------------------

I tried andyb solution that seems to work fine and looks pretty simple, but I have another issue with this solution.

Let's say I have this XML:

<a>
    <b attribute="e" optionalAttr="fg"></b>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
    <c></c>
</a>

I added an optional parameter for the b tag. Applying andyb solution the optional parameter will be ignored, because it is not matched in the template. Here is the result:

<a>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <b attribute="e"></b>
    <c></c>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
</a>

Instead of the following which is what I expect:

<a>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <b attribute="e" optionalAttr="fg"></b>
    <c></c>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
</a>

Do you have any idea? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use multiple xsl:sort instructions, for example:

<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*">
      <xsl:sort select="name()" />
      <xsl:sort select="@*" />
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

and since the default data-type is "text" and the default order is "ascending" this gives the desired output.

Edit

This is strange, because for the following XML:

<a>
    <b attribute="e" optionalAttr="fg"></b>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
    <c></c>
</a>

and the XSL above, I get this result:

<a>
    <b attribute="b"></b>
    <b attribute="e" optionalAttr="fg"></b>
    <c></c>
    <d attribute="a"></d>
</a>

This includes the desired optional attribute but the order is different to the XML in the edited question (<c></c> is in a different position).