Thanks for all of your kindly helps.
I cannot accept to transform attribute to element. What I want is sort the
attribute lexicographic. Now I understand it depends on the implementation
of engine. I use apache xalan 2.6.0, I will study to see if there is any
option for this purpose.
Thanks,
John
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Hi Kenneth,
I agree with you completely!
Regards,
Mukul
On 8/13/05, Kenneth Stephen
<marvin(_dot_)the(_dot_)cynical(_dot_)robot(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Mukul,
Err...dont you have that backwards? The spec is clear about the
ordering of attributes - it is unordered and any order that is
imposed, if at all, is implementation defined. So your expectations
are anomalous.
Not to start a flamewar or anything, but lets remember semantically
speaking, it doesnt make sense for attributes (or properties, if you
want to look at XML with OO-coloured glasses) of elements (objects) to
have order. As Douglas pointed out, if ordering the data in the
attributes makes semantic sense to John's application, then it makes
much more sense to restructure the XML so that the data in the
attributes appears as child elements.
Regards,
Kenneth
On 8/13/05, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi(_dot_)mukul(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I thought this code should have sorted attribute nodes by
names(seems logical). I tested with Saxon 8.4, and it sorted the
attributes by name.
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:sort select="name()"/>
I remember David Carlisle telling some time back on XSL-List, that
XML Spec is notoriously famous for such anomalies.
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