Re: attribute order

On Thursday 21 February 2002 08:45, Andy Joslin wrote:
> In my experience you can control the order using xsl-attribute-sets
>
> e.g.
>
> <xsl:attribute-set name="table580">
> <xsl:attribute name="border">0</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:attribute name="cellpadding">0</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:attribute name="cellspacing">0</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:attribute name="width">580</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:attribute-set>
>
> results in..
>
> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="580">

It was my experience that processors that change the order tend to 
alphabetize the attributes, or, if the processor happens to store the 
attributes in a hash-map of some kind, seemingly random order.  Have you 
tried if rearranging the attribute-set has the same effect in the output?

>
> though I agree that the order isn't really that significant
>
>
> cheers
>
>
> Andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 February 2002 16:18
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  attribute order
>
> > After an XSL transformation, the attributes in the HTML tags are
>
> reordered.
>
> > Any idea why this is happening and what can be done about it?
>
> In both XML and HTML the ordering of attributes is insignificant.
> You can not control this from XSLT, any more than you can control whether
> " or ' is used around the value.
>
> David
>
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