Re: [xsl] Is it legal to do <xsl:copy-of select="element/@attribute"/>?

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I guess that the wise people who authored the spec didn't want to be
> redundant

The XSLT 1.0 specification is often admired for its brevity, but it does 
leave many things unsaid. The 2.0 specs are often considered long-winded 
in comparison, but they do tend to cover the ground more 
comprehensively. In 2.0 you will find the rules here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#constructing-complex-content

In particular rule 9.

One of the changes in the 2.0 spec is that it tries hard to avoid 
temporal language, for example any suggestion that if you have two 
xsl:attribute instructions then they are executed in a particular order.

Michael Kay
Saxonica