Subject: RE: The output of evaluating an XSLT transform is the same regardless of the order in which output elements are evaluated. Right?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:39:47 +0100
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> There is no way in XSLT 1.0 of telling what the actual order
> of evaluation is, and therefore a statement in the spec that
> suggests a particular order has no force. Processors are
> conformant if they produce the right results in all
> circumstances, whether or not they do things the way the spec
> suggests they should be done.
>
Incidentally, XSLT 1.0 says this explicitly in section 5.1:
Implementations are free to process the source document in any way that
produces the same result as if it were processed using this processing
model.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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