Re: Namespace nodes in XSLT and XPath

• From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:18:52 +0700
• To: Michael Fuller <msf@mds.rmit.edu.au>
• CC: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, xsl-editors@w3.org
• Message-ID: <395C119C.7D2BF8C5@jclark.com>

But I think you have found a bug in the spec: it's misleading for 16.1
to refer to the order of attribute nodes but not the order of namespace
nodes.

Michael Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:45:56PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> > > But in the latter alternative, the namespace
> > > nodes associated with the element 'foo' are:
> > The order is machine specific in eithercase.
> 
> I now understand; David Marston was kind enough to point out
> that XPath Sec. 5 explicitly states that the relative order
> of namespace and attributes nodes is implementation-dependent;
> I'd missed that paragraph on my hunts through XSLT & XPath.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Michael

Received on Thursday, 29 June 2000 23:43:21 UTC