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RE: [xsl] The output of evaluating an XSLT transform is the same regardless of the order in which output elements are evaluated. Right?

2010-04-16 03:40:07

There is no way in XSLT 1.0 of telling what the actual order 
of evaluation is, and therefore a statement in the spec that 
suggests a particular order has no force. Processors are 
conformant if they produce the right results in all 
circumstances, whether or not they do things the way the spec 
suggests they should be done.


Incidentally, XSLT 1.0 says this explicitly in section 5.1:

Implementations are free to process the source document in any way that
produces the same result as if it were processed using this processing
model.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 


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