Re: Getting all the attribute values

["John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>]

At 09:12 AM 4/7/2000 -0700, Selva, Francis wrote:
>why my output looks like this if I run this xsl?
>
>    ...[snip]...
>
>xml
>
><years title="year" century="20th" month="April" Day="Thursday"/>
>
>output
>
>Thursday20thAprilyear
>
>why it's not extracting in the right order?

For starters, I believe that according the the XML 1.0 Rec, attributes 
(unlike elements) can't be depended on to be in any particular order once 
the document's been parsed. As to why your results are in *that* order in 
particular, as opposed to all the others, I'm guessing, but it may be that 
whatever parser is running is storing the attribute names in an array 
sorted on the attribute name, so the attribute/value pairs are (in order)
      Day       Thursday
      century   20th
      month     April
      title     year
(Note that Day, unlike the other attribs, begins with an uppercase letter. 
For the above theory to be true, uppercase would have to sort before 
lowercase. Anyone know if that's true?)

If this is the case, you're seeing the result not of XSLT behavior, but of 
parser behavior.

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