Thanks for all of your kindly helps. 

I cannot accept to transform attribute to element. What I want is sort the
attribute lexicographic. Now I understand it depends on the implementation
of engine. I use apache xalan 2.6.0, I will study to see if there is any
option for this purpose.  

Thanks,
John


-----Original Message-----
From: xsl-list-return-19559-johnli121=163.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xsl-list-return-19559-johnli121=163.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mukul Gandhi
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 12:39 AM
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Subject: Re:  How to sort attribute?

Hi Kenneth,
  I agree with you completely!

Regards,
Mukul

On 8/13/05, Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.cynical.robot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mukul,
> 
>    Err...dont you have that backwards? The spec is clear about the 
> ordering of attributes - it is unordered and any order that is 
> imposed, if at all, is implementation defined. So your expectations 
> are anomalous.
> 
>    Not to start a flamewar or anything, but lets remember semantically 
> speaking, it doesnt make sense for attributes (or properties, if you 
> want to look at XML with OO-coloured glasses) of elements (objects) to 
> have order. As Douglas pointed out, if ordering the data in the 
> attributes makes semantic sense to John's application, then it makes 
> much more sense to restructure the XML so that the data in the 
> attributes appears as child elements.
> 
> Regards,
> Kenneth
> 
> On 8/13/05, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I thought this code should have sorted attribute nodes by 
> > names(seems logical). I tested with Saxon 8.4, and it sorted the 
> > attributes by name.
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> >    <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
> >
> > I remember David Carlisle telling some time back on XSL-List, that 
> > XML Spec is notoriously famous for such anomalies.