Re: [xsl] position last and attributes

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> The fact the order of attributes cannot be guaranteed has nothing to
>> do with position() and last(), as by the time those functions get to
>> be used the order of the node list is known.
>>
>
> My initial post (if you read it again) was to highlight the paradox of
> being able to apply ordering semantics to something that is
> intrinsically unordered.

There's nothing to highlight...

- attribute order is not guaranteed: this just means 2 different
conformant implementations could return attributes in different orders
to each other (or theoretically even themselves)

- position() returns the position of a node within a node list, last()
returns the last node in a node list

The two things are unrelated (or orthogonal! knew I would use that
word one day...)



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Andrew Welch
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