This is about 3 years old, but I figured I'd give an answer for anyone who may still be looking. You can update your XSL transform file to include the following line: Place it directly after the line. The transformations are located in the file system under /DesktopModules/News/Transformations. I would recommend making a copy of the default one and linking the module to the modified file. Vincent @channeldynamix

Has anyone ever figured out how to effectively reverse the sort order of RSS feeds with the News Feeds module by publish date?

I am using the News Feeds to pull calendar events from the Events module, just like Jacob. I have the latest version of the Events module which allows you to specify the pubDate of the RSS feed as the calendar date of the Event. However, no matter what I do, the events are all listed by the News Feeds module in descending order by date, where I'd like then to list in ascending order instead.

I've been playing around with different XSL transformations, and this is my latest attempt (I've added spaces next to the < and > symbols so the content won't be stripped by the commenting engine of this forum):

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< xsl:for-each select="channel/item" >
< xsl:sort order="descending" select="(1000 * number(pubDate)) + (100 * number(pubDate)) + number(pubDate)"/ >
.....
< /xsl:for-each >
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I downloaded the source code for this module and found the following code starting on line 226 of the RssAggregator.vb file:

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' Add the nodes but insert them to reverse the order to pubDate DESC
Dim first As Boolean = True
For Each key As String In nodesList.Keys
If first Then
channelNode.AppendChild(ImportNode(nodesList(key), True))
first = False
Else
channelNode.InsertBefore(ImportNode(nodesList(key), True), channelNode.FirstChild)
End If
Next

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It is clearly sorting by pubDate in descending order. I suppose I could modify this, but I'd rather use the supported version of the News Feeds module and implement my sorting via XSL translations or other means.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Joel