I'm currently investigating. At present I seem to be getting your "incorrect"
output in 9.7.0.7.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 22 Jul 2016, at 13:36, Andrew Campbell andrew.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Ibve got it working now. I was using SaxonHE9-6-0-7J. Upgrading to
SaxonHE9-7-0-7J
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> Not sure if I should be pleased it was an easy fix or embarrassed I didnbt
think of that first!
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> Thanks for the assistance.
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> On 21/07/2016, 16:29, "Andrew Campbell andrew.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>    That is odd.
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>    I will poke around in my environment here and see what I can find.
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>    On 21/07/2016, 16:19, "G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>        After my hasty answer, Andrew, I looked at your email again and
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>        thought that, indeed, there should be no difference.
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>        So I executed your code with the combined template, and I do, in
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>        fact, get the same result.  Results below with Saxon.
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>        Did you invoke the wrong files, perhaps?
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>        . . . . . Ken
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>        t:\ftemp>type andrew.xml
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>        <resource>
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>             <method href="ref1"/>
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>             <method href="ref2"/>
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>             <method href="ref3"/>
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>          </resource>
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>        t:\ftemp>xslt2 andrew.xml andrew.xsl
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>        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><resource>
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>             <method href="ref1"/>
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>          </resource>
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>        t:\ftemp>type andrew.xsl
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>        <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
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>                         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
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>>
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>             <xsl:template
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>                     match="
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>                           /
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>                          | @*
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>                          | method[@href = 'ref1']
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>                          | node()
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>                          ">
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>                 <xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
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>             </xsl:template>
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>             <xsl:template match="method"/>
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>             <xsl:template name="identity">
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>                 <xsl:copy>
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>                     <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node() " />
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>                 </xsl:copy>
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>             </xsl:template>
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>        </xsl:stylesheet>
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>        t:\ftemp>
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