Hi Christian,
However, XSLT specifies that first, one has to add attributes to a node
before appending any children. Doesn't Form 2 first append child nodes
and then attributes, which should either result in an error or silently
discard the attributes?
When you have
<xsl:apply-templates select="a|b"/>
the XSL parser does not make a nodeset first with all a elements, then
with all b elements. It selects a combined nodeset of all a and b
elements encountered - in document order.
Has this something to do with document traversal order, i.e. while
building the list of selected items using "node()|@*", the attribute
nodes (satisfying the expression) are found first and are therefore
added first to the list of items to be copied, in consequence satisfying
the "attribute-before-children" requirement?
As you said (answering your first question yourself), attributes of an
element seems to comes before the children of the element, and are
therefore encountered first :-)
Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)
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