On 2015-06-16, Chris Lott wrote:
> I need to sort lines like this:
> 
>     <li><a href="http://foo.com/";>Lisa</li>
>     <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/";>Bart</li>
>     <li><a href="http://donuts.com/";>Homer</li>
> 
> by the name "inside" the a tag, thus:
> 
>     <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/";>Bart</li>
>     <li><a href="http://donuts.com/";>Homer</li>
>     <li><a href="http://foo.com/";>Lisa</li>
> 
> Can I do this within Vim?

The {pattern} argument tells the :sort command to ignore the text
matching the pattern.  See

    :help :sort

In your example, you want to skip everything through the '">', so
this would work:

    :sort /.*">/

Regards,
Gary

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