Subject: Re: [xsl] position last and attributes From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:16:28 +0100 |
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I think your confusion comes from the fact that, you want to get >>> position of a node in the sequence as per document order. If that's >>> your objective, then I think this problem can't be solved for >>> attributes (due to it's unordered semantics at the XML level). >>> >> >> I am not confused. I understood how the semantics of position() and >> last() affected @* before I posted. > > position() and last() don't affect @* > yes I know they operate on what @* returns (the confusion here is entirely not on my part). > > maybe post a small complete example demonstrating your point? > <A 1st="1" second="2" third="3" fourth="4" fifth="5"/> now tell me what are the first and last attributes of A. Now if you tell me it's implementation defined then I'll say to you that I can define an implementation of a drawing package that deems the start point of a circle to be the coordinate at which it starts to serialise the circle and since that could be any point whatsoever that is totally meaningless.
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