Re: XSL transformation with Ant: sorting a list

> If the classpath is not identical, you could get a different transform
> provider.  For example, we use Saxon as our provider, overriding what is
> provided in the runtime library.


Thank you for the hint! I downloaded the latest xalan distribution and 
executed the ant script with the "classpath" attribute pointing to xalan.

And it worked! I naively assumed that a modern Java distributions (Java 
8) include an xslt processor good enough to carry out this simple 
transformation correctly. But it's apparently not the case.

So, when in doubt, specify the xslt processor explicitly and do not rely 
on the one contained in the JDK!

Thank you all who has responded! Now the world is half sane again (only 
half because JDK contains a flawed xslt processor).