Subject: [xsl] Xalan attribute order From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:22:30 -0400 |
>I know, attribute order doesn't matter, and if order matters, > something is wrong. ****EXTREMELY**** wrong. Attribute order shouldn't be significant for HTML either. > I guess Xalan sorts the attributs alphabetically. > Is there a way, to change the behaviour of Xalan? XML parsers do not promise to retain attribute order, so this information is generally gone before it reaches Xalan. I don't think we deliberately change the order, but I know we don't make any special effort to maintaiin it. You could try to find an XML parser which retains the original order, connect Xalan to that rather than using the Xerces or Crimson parsers we generally run with, and see if Xalan "just happens" to then do the right thing for you. If it doesn't... I think you're looking at writing some sort of custom extension of the Xalan HTML serializer which knows what attribute order works for your tools and sorts them (or feeding Xalan's output into some other resorting mechanism). Personally, I would suggest you replace the downstream tools. Nonstandard patches to support broken behavior are a thoroughly bad game to get into; the ongoing maintainance costs are likely to be much larger than you expect. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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