Hi Michael, thanks for clearing that up.  I am *almost* there now,
with the current incarnation of the stylesheet (below).

The only remaining issue I have appears to be with Xalan.  When I
serialize out a collection with JAXB, and apply the stylesheet (using
code posted previously), it sorts everything and I have no missing
attributes, except the DictionaryModelDescriptor node is now at the
bottom of the file instead of the top.  When I run with xsltproc on
mac/linux it places it at the top.

Any idea why I get this behavior?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt" >

    <!-- The xalan param gets back indentation that seems to be broken
in the java api  -->
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"
xalan:indent-amount="4"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

    	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:apply-templates />
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  		<xsl:copy>
			<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
			<!-- copy all attributes before applying templates to children only -->
			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
				<xsl:sort select="- boolean(self::DictionaryModelDescriptor)"/>
				<xsl:sort select="@typeName"/>
      				<xsl:sort select="name(.)"/>
      				<xsl:sort />
    			</xsl:apply-templates>
  		</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

On Nov 29, 2007 12:46 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >I am running into some issues / inconsistencies running this
> > >transformation on command line vs. within java vs. which
> > platform I run
> > >it on.  I'm hoping the list might have some pointers on how
> > to resolve his.
>
> >         <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> >                 <xsl:copy>
> >                         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()">
> >                                 <xsl:sort select="@typeName"/>
> >                                 <xsl:sort select="name(.)"/>
> >                                 <xsl:sort />
> >                         </xsl:apply-templates>
> >                 </xsl:copy>
> >         </xsl:template>
>
> This code may have the effect of sorting child elements before attributes
> (specifically a child element with no typeName attribute whose name
> alphabetically precedes the attribute names). You aren't allowed to create
> attributes for an element after creating child elements. In XSLT 1.0 the
> processor has the option of ignoring the error by discarding the offending
> attributes.
>
> > >When I run this on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (fully updated) using
> > xsltproc, I
> > >encounter this bug:
> > >
> > >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/147144
> > >
> > >Namely, it reports the error:
> > >
> > >runtime error: file SortCollections.xsl line 40 element copy
> > Attribute
> > >nodes must be added before any child nodes to an element.
>
> That doesn't look like a bug to me, it looks like correct behaviour.
>
> > >
> > >When I run this on Mac OS X 1.5 (Leopard -- fully updated) using
> > >xsltproc, it does exactly what I want with no problems.
>
> That looks like a bug to me.
>
> > >
> > >When I run this script from Java 1.6  (using JAXB) with the
> > code below,
> > >the identity transform does not copy all the attributes over.
> > >I end up with missing attributes, and I have no idea why.
>
> Xalan is apparently choosing the option to ignore the error and discard the
> attributes.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>



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