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Hi Christian, > However, XSLT specifies that first, one has to add attributes to a node > before appending any children. Doesn't Form 2 first append child nodes > and then attributes, which should either result in an error or silently > discard the attributes? When you have <xsl:apply-templates select="a|b"/> the XSL parser does not make a nodeset first with all a elements, then with all b elements. It selects a combined nodeset of all a and b elements encountered - in document order. > Has this something to do with document traversal order, i.e. while > building the list of selected items using "node()|@*", the attribute > nodes (satisfying the expression) are found first and are therefore > added first to the list of items to be copied, in consequence satisfying > the "attribute-before-children" requirement? As you said (answering your first question yourself), attributes of an element seems to comes before the children of the element, and are therefore encountered first :-) Regards, Ragulf Pickaxe :-)
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