RE: ATTRIBUTE ORDER

> You can, however, always sort your attributes: if they're 
> always in alphabetical order they'll always be in the same order.
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>    <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
>    ...
> </xsl:for-each>

Since collating sequences for xsl:sort aren't defined in the spec, you've no
guarantee that this will give the same attribute order in different
implementations; for example the handling of hyphens within sort keys is
known to vary from one XSLT processor to another.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/