I have added the test case as match-247 to the W3C test suite.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 22 Jul 2016, at 15:30, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm currently investigating. At present I seem to be getting your
"incorrect" output in 9.7.0.7.
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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>> 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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>>            <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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