On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Welch
<andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think your confusion comes from the fact that, you want to get
position of a node in the sequence as per document order. If that's
your objective, then I think this problem can't be solved for
attributes (due to it's unordered semantics at the XML level).
I am not confused. I understood how the semantics of position() and
last() affected @* before I posted.
position() and last() don't affect @*
yes I know they operate on what @* returns (the confusion here is
entirely not on my part).
maybe post a small complete example demonstrating your point?
<A 1st="1" second="2" third="3" fourth="4" fifth="5"/>
now tell me what are the first and last attributes of A.
Now if you tell me it's implementation defined then I'll say to you
that I can define an implementation of a drawing package that deems
the start point of a circle to be the coordinate at which it starts to
serialise the circle and since that could be any point whatsoever that
is totally meaningless.
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