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At 2012-09-20 16:01 -0400, John P. McCaskey wrote:
On 9/20/2012 3:23 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:. . . I see what you see in that a number of processors appear to put the attributes on the attribute axis in specified order, followed by the unspecified defaulted attributes in declaration order.So when there is no declaration, then -- even with all the haranguing about what the spec says -- an xsl:for-each or a select="@*[ ]" will take attributes in specified order. Only by coincidence, not by intention. I don't raise this with my students, I tell them to write their algorithms with no provision for any assumed order of nodes along the attribute axis (or the namespace axis). I never took the time before to compare processors until this afternoon. I'll still tell them not to rely on specified order, because they shouldn't. . . . . . . . . Ken
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