XSLT script to sort nodes alphabetically

The simple XSL sample you have been looking for. Works great with Saxon. "version" set to 2.0 here to prevent a warning with the latest version of Saxon, but you can change it to 1.0 for older XSLT engines.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

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

</xsl:stylesheet>

Oh, and the saxon commandline syntax to apply an XSL (which should really be provided in a straightforward fashion in the commandline help) is:

C:\>saxon -s:banks.xml -xsl:sort.xsl -o:banks_sorted.xml