Order of nodes in xsl:for-each nodeset (Xalan-J)

[Brian J. Sayatovic]

I'm using Xalan-J to loop through some nodes with an xsl:for-each
element, presumably in document order. As far as I can tell, the XSL
speciciation says that a for-each element will loop through the
nodeset in document order, meaning the order the elements occur in the
document. Does Xalan-J obey this rule?

I'm encountering some oddities that could be explained if Xalan-J does
not adhere to this, but it is a very rare circumstance, so its hard to
test.

Regards,
Brian.

[Martin Honnen]

Brian J. Sayatovic wrote:

I'm using Xalan-J to loop through some nodes with an xsl:for-each
element, presumably in document order. As far as I can tell, the XSL
speciciation says that a for-each element will loop through the
nodeset in document order, meaning the order the elements occur in the
document. Does Xalan-J obey this rule?

I'm encountering some oddities that could be explained if Xalan-J does
not adhere to this, but it is a very rare circumstance, so its hard to
test.

The XSLT 1.0 specification says about xsl:for-each:

The nodes are processed in document order, unless a sorting
specification is present.

I don't know whether Xalan-J has some bug, that might depend on the
version of it. Do you get different results for the same XML document
and XSL document when you try another XSLT processor?
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/