Re: [xsl] attribute order

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> (There is universal consensus that in XML, element order is important but
> attribute order isn't. There is nothing explicit in the XML specification
> that says this, but it's made clear in the definition of the InfoSet.)

Actually a sentence making this explicit was added in XML 2e:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006-review.html#sec-starttags

... Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or
empty-element tag is not significant. 

David

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