The rules for conflict resolution are pretty simple

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#conflict

 match="section" has priority 0 (because of the second rule)

 match="*[@tocOut]" doesn't match any special case so has a priority of
 0.5 (because of the last rule)

So *[@tocOut] has higher priority.

If xalan isn't doing that you should report a bug.

David

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