Xpath and for-each looping

I've got a xml document (out.xml) that was generated from 3 other xml doc
(using the copy-of element), and I'm mostly happy with the results. The goal
is to loop through out.xml doc and display the last 5 title nodes (according
to their respective date).  The unintended result is that it loops through 3
times because of the three rdf:RDF tags that were pulled in when the xml
page was generated.

Here¹s some of the abbreviated code to illustrate what happened.

Out.xml:
<fxml  xmlns:fxml="http://www.utah.gov/fxml";
xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
 
<rdf:RDF xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext";>
        <title>sample1 title1</title>
        <link>http://http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext</link>
        <description>Description 1 goes here</description>
        <date>05/21/03</date>
     </item>
</rdf:RDF>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";>
    <item rdf:about="http://http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext";>
        <title>sample2 title1</title>
        <link>http://http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext</link>
        <description>Description 2  goes here</description>
        <date>05/21/03</date>
    </item>
 </rdf:RDF>
  <rdf:RDF xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/";>
    <item rdf:about="http://http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext";>
        <title>sample3 title1</title>
        <link>http://http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext</link>
        <description>Description 1 goes here</description>
        <date>05/21/03</date>
    </item>
</rdf:RDF>
</fxml>

In my xsl doc I¹m doing this:
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('out.xml')/*"/>

<xsl:template match="fxml/rdf:RDF">
            <xsl:for-each select="item">
                <xsl:sort select="date" order="descending"/>
                <xsl:if test="position() &lt; 6">
                    <a href="{link}"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
                    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="date"/><br/>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>
            
    </xsl:template>

How do I write it to loop through just the item nodes once and sort them by
date?

Alan 



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