RE: two namespaces and a position problem

"The order in which the attributes are reported by the XML parser is
__arbitrary__
and not guaranteed to be consistent from run to run."

Thank you for that, I was not aware and it is VERY good to know.  Is that
parser specific or is it just an XSLT thing in regards to attributes?  I
assumed it read them directly in the order that they existed in the data
tree.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:27 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  two namespaces and a position problem


> Anyways I cannot use a variable (I thought) in the loop because you cannot
> reassign the value of a variable.

Of course you can have xsl:variable inside a for-each (as I showed) it
isn't re-assigning the value of a variable just definining a new
variable with the same name.

But you really don't want to use position() with select="@*"

you have

<row column1="value" column3="value"></row>

so
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
will process two nodes
column1 and column3 but you could run the stylesheet once and
column1 will be position()=1 and 
column3 will be position()=2

then you could run the same source and same stylesheet again with no
changes and
column1 will be position()=2 and 
column3 will be position()=1

The order in which the attributes are reported by the XML parser is
__arbitrary__
and not guaranteed to be consistent from run to run.

David


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