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David Carlisle wrote: > Attributes are explictly unordered beasts I went looking for the explicit quote and found "The relative order of attribute nodes is implementation-dependent" in the XPath spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model I don't disagree with it, but it seems to be less than intuitive, given that section 2.4 implies that an attribute axis is a forward axis and thus contains nodes in document order. My interpretation is: 1. the attribute axis contains attribute nodes relative to the current node, if it is an element 2. the attribute axis is a forward axis, so its nodes are in document order 3. attribute nodes do not have a relative order in the data model So which is it? Ordered or not? In either case I don't see how this could return anything other than document-ordered attributes, because xsl:for-each by default processes nodes in document order: <xsl:for-each select="@*"> <xsl:value-of select="concat(name(.),'=',.)"/> </xsl:for-each> -Mike XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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