RE: attributes ordering

[Samuel Yang <syang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elements are ordered, and attributes are unordered.  Therefore, if you want
to get your attributes in "document order", you'll have to make them
subelements instead of attributes.

Instead of:

	<ATOM PHASE="GAS" NAME="Hydrogen" SYMBOL="H" ATOMIC_NUMBER="1"
ATOMIC_WEIGHT="1.00794"/>

you could use:

	<ATOM>
		<PHASE>GAS</PHASE>
		<NAME>Hydrogen</NAME>
      	<SYMBOL>H<SYMBOL>
		<ATOMIC_NUMBER>1</ATOMIC_NUMBER>
		<ATOMIC_WEIGHT>1.00794</ATOMIC_WEIGHT>
	</ATOM>

or something like:

	<ATOM>
		<PHASE value="GAS"/>
		<NAME value="Hydrogen"/>
      	<SYMBOL value="H"/>
		<ATOMIC_NUMBER value="1"/>
		<ATOMIC_WEIGHT value="1.00794"/>
	</ATOM>

Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:03 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: attributes ordering


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:14:41 -0400, you wrote:

>if the order is important, how can I keep the attribute order instead
>of using @*?

Attributes are intrinsically unordered. If you are doing some
processing that relies on the attributes being in some particular
order, you are going to have to rethink what you're doing.

-Steve


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