Re: [xsl] ATTRIBUTE ORDER

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/26/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> At 06:52 PM 5/26/2006, you wrote:
> >XSLT 2.0 with Saxon 8
> >
> >When I am parsing a node with attributes, can I count on the attribute order
> >staying the same as in the source document?
>
> Nope. Attribute order is undefined in XML, so parsers are not obliged
> to maintain it, and consequently nothing else is either.
>
> You can, however, always sort your attributes: if they're always in
> alphabetical order they'll always be in the same order.


Still, the results may be inconsistent across different XSLT processors.

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