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At 05:01 PM 10/31/2006, Dimitre wrote:
If you would refers it, and make it, say: ` node ( ) | @* ' the nodes would first be copied, resulting in the attributes ending up illegally: you may not create an attribute node after you create an element node in the result tree. However, I'm not sure if this is really enforced by the specs. The analogy that occurred to me lately is the "take a number" routine you find in your local Division of Motor Vehicles (or the friendly bureaucracy of your choice if you're not a US resident). Applicants on arrival are given numbers that are then called in order, so while we're waiting around we don't actually have to stand in line. While we're waiting, we typically fill out the forms that will be required of us. In XSLT, it's as if the processing happens as we fill out the forms. The re-ordering only has to occur at serialization time. The number, of course, is called "position()" (which you may note has nothing necessarily to do with how we were ordered when we arrived). Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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