> the specification doesn't guarantee that ../@* is in the same order of
> the node-set returned by @* when the apply-templates was done.

> Or have I got that wrong.

Yep, document order is consistent:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#document-order

"Attribute Nodes immediately follow the Namespace Nodes of the element
with which they are associated. If there are no Namespace Nodes
associated with a given element, then the Attribute Nodes associated
with that element immediately follow the element. **The relative order
of Attribute Nodes is stable but implementation-dependent**."

(I added the **)


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