>I think I tested Saxon once, months ago, to see how it handled this 
>sitation and (at least at that time, with that document, etc.) it did 
>indeed seem to be ordering attributes alphabetically. 

I think that's what happens if you use Saxon with its default XML parser
(AElfred) but I know the behaviour is different depending on the XML parser
you choose.

Mike Kay


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