Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>> If you would refers it, and make it, say: ` node ( ) | @* ' the nodes
>> would first be copied, resulting in the attributes ending up illegally:
>> you may not create an attribute node after you create an element node in
>> the result tree. However, I'm not sure if this is really enforced by the
>> specs.
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>
> This is not true.
>
> The order in which an <xsl:apply-templates> instruction is applied on
> the nodes selected by the expression as specified in its select
> attribute is not defined and may be in any order.
Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed, I always forget about this
processing order, and tend to think in terms of result tree order...
>
> What is important, is that the results of these applications are
> combined/ordered based on the document order of the processed nodes.
I see. Meaning that though it can be processes in any order, the actual
order of the output is determined by a certain set of rules, which is
based on the original document order and not the order of the xpath in
the template or the template itself. And I was always so careful putting
the right order for the " | " unioned items ;-)
-- Abel
