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Re: [xsl] sort problem


Subject: Re: [xsl] sort problem
From: Peter Davis <pdavis152@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 23:20:28 -0700

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 23:09, aruniima.chakrabarti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
>                         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*">
>                                 <xsl:sort select="name()"
> data-type="text"/> </xsl:apply-templates>

If you want to be pedantic, the <xsl:sort> here doesn't matter, so you can 
save a few CPU cycles by just doing:

  <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

The reason is because

  <e a="1" b="2"/>

will be interpreted exactly the same as:

  <e b="2" a="1"/>

by any compliant XML parser.

-- 
Peter Davis

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