In my tests, your code produces exactly the output you are asking for.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Yau [mailto:eyau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 November 2008 14:50
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Saxon node matching order
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about how Saxon chooses which node to match next.
> 
> I have some XML that looks a bit like this:
> 
> <x>
>    <y>
>       <z>Peter</z>
>    </y>
>    <z> </z>
>    <y>
>       <z>Jones</>
>    </y>
> </x>
> 
> What I'm trying to achieve is the follow:
> 
> <x>
>       <z>Peter</z>
>       <z> </z>
>       <z>Jones</>
> </x>
> 
> With the code below:
> 
> <xsl:template match="x" >
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="y|z"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="y">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="z"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 	
> <xsl:template match="z">
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|*">
>      <xsl:copy>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()">
>         </xsl:apply-templates>
>      </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> But annoyingly my code seems to be doing this instead:
> 
> <x>
>       <z>Peter</z>
>       <z>Jones</z>
>       <z> </z>
> </x>
> 
> It is obviously matching all the <y> tags before the <z> tags.
> Does anyone know of a way around this?
> 
> Many thanks,
>    Ed
> 
> 
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