>>     I think your confusion comes from the fact that, you want to get
>> position of a node in the sequence as per document order. If that's
>> your objective, then I think this problem can't be solved for
>> attributes (due to it's unordered semantics at the XML level).
>>
>
> I am not confused. I understood how the semantics of position() and
> last() affected @* before I posted.

position() and last() don't affect @*

maybe post a small complete example demonstrating your point?


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