> Whichever processor is telling you that attributes cannot be 
> numbered is
> wrong. It doesn't make much sense to number them, but it's perfectly
> permissible to do it, and the result is well defined.

> BTW, Iam using the saxon 6.5.4 processor.
>

I think that problem was fixed in 6.5.5.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/