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 The following issue is easy to workaround, but I am wondering if this is correct behavior after the XSLT 2 (or even 1) recommendation. With an xsl:apply-template that includes attribute nodes in its select-attribute, and you apply an xsl:sort on the children, then it happens that the attribute nodes are created after the children when the order of xsl:sort is descending. I tried google on this, but couldn't find something useful. The example below throws the following error: "An attribute node (count) cannot be created after the children of the containing element" I did not try other parsers. The xslt employs a simple copy idiom and sorts the rows of the input in $data. Call the XSLT on itself to see the error or the results: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"> <xsl:output indent="yes" /> <xsl:variable name="data"> <rows count="3"> <row>bbbb</row> <row>aaaa</row> <row>cccc</row> </rows> </xsl:variable> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="$data/*" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="node() | @*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="rows">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*">
<xsl:sort
select="text()"
order="descending" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet> Any thoughts on this? Is this behavior desired and/or required, or is this the processor's mistake? Btw: a possible workaround is to apply the attribute node first. Cheers, -- Abel Braaksma http://www.nuntia.nl 
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