The fact the order of attributes cannot be guaranteed has nothing to
do with position() and last(), as by the time those functions get to
be used the order of the node list is known.
My initial post (if you read it again) was to highlight the paradox of
being able to apply ordering semantics to something that is
intrinsically unordered.
There's nothing to highlight...
- attribute order is not guaranteed: this just means 2 different
conformant implementations could return attributes in different orders
to each other (or theoretically even themselves)
- position() returns the position of a node within a node list, last()
returns the last node in a node list
The two things are unrelated (or orthogonal! knew I would use that
word one day...)
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
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