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+Templates sorting utility aimed to sort components (second level xml elements) in simulation templates in alphabetical order.
+
+Usage:
+./templatessorter.sh path_to_folder_with_simulation_templates
+
diff --git a/source/tools/templatessorter/templatessorter.sh b/source/tools/templatessorter/templatessorter.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# check arguments count
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+  echo 'usage: '$0' directory'
+  exit
+fi
+# assign arguments to variables with readable names
+input_directory=$1
+# perform work
+find $input_directory -name \*.xml -exec xsltproc -o {} templatessorter.xsl {} \;
+
diff --git a/source/tools/templatessorter/templatessorter.xsl b/source/tools/templatessorter/templatessorter.xsl
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+<xsl:stylesheet
+  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+  version="1.0">
+
+  <xsl:output encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
+
+  <xsl:template match="@* | node() | comment()">
+    <xsl:copy>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node() | comment()"/>
+    </xsl:copy>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <!-- we use match="/Entity" because we want to sort only second-level elements (contained in top level Entity) -->
+  <xsl:template match="/Entity">
+    <xsl:copy>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | comment()"/>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="*">
+        <!-- with translate function sorting will be case-insensitive,
+             because it will change lower-case letter to upper-case for sorting -->
+        <xsl:sort select="translate(local-name(), 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
+      </xsl:apply-templates>
+    </xsl:copy>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
+