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RE: last attribute ?
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: last attribute ?
- From: Brian Young <Brian dot Young at sas dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:53:06 -0400
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hello,
Ok, I made a logical leap (and a bad one at that...).
The original statement by Mike Kay indicated that the order of attributes returned by xsl:for-each was not reliable (which makes sense). I then made my leap (uh-oh) and assumed that this would also apply to the order of elements that are returned by xsl:for-each.
My code depends (as I'm sure others do...) on xsl:for-each returning document order of elements by default. Knowing Mike Kay to be a very reliable font of XML/XSL information and with my logical leap in hand, I felt enough concern that I had to ask the question. :)
As for attribute order, no, I don't care about it. But I figured whatever mechanism there would be to force it (like an attribute on xsl:for-each) would work on forcing element order, were that to be an issue. Which it isn't.
Confused yet? I am. And the day is still young!
Thanks,
Brian Young
-----Original Message-----
From: DuCharme, Robert [mailto:Robert.DuCharme@moodys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:34 PM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: last attribute ?
>Why would the attributes not be processed in document order? If they are
>not, how can this be forced?
The term "document order" doesn't apply to a particular element's
attributes. Order doesn't matter with attributes; <test color="red"
age="2"/> and <test age="2" color="red"/> are the same to an XML parser.
What kind of app are you creating output for that cares about attribute
order? It's not a conformant XML parser, and I've never heard of an HTML
application (browser or otherwise) that cared about attribute order.
Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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