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Subject: RE: [xsl] Collecting attributes from the ancestor-or-self axis From: "WATKIN-JONES,ADAM (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)" <adam_watkin-jones@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:26:43 -0000 |
Ah! Thank you for the correction. One feature of this mailing list I appreciate is how sloppy thinking is put to the sword! > From: David Carlisle > > > I believe this works as follows: > more or less, yes. > > > > 1. the select in copy-of returns a node-set in document > order. At this > > point the node set has duplicate attribute names. > > As I've said so often on this list that even Jeni's started saying it, > set's don't have an order. So the select just selects the set > of nodes. > > Howver copy-of, in common with all other result building operations > in xslt, processes the nodes in the set in document order, and so: > > > 2. when copy-of applies these attributes to the output element, the > > duplication is removed by succeeding attribute nodes > overwriting the values > > of any attributes that are already present. > > > David > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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