At 2012-09-20 13:08 -0400, John P. McCaskey wrote:

Though not required to by spec, in practice do the major XSL processors treat attributes in document order, alphabetical order, or any other repeated order?

When writing XSL, I sometimes need to jump through hoops that could be avoided if I knew the processor would treat the attributes in the same order every time. If I knew what that order is, all the better.

My code might not work on a different XSLT processor or be guaranteed to work with different revs, but often that's OK.

Could you characterize where in your algorithms you find the order of nodes along the attribute axis important or useful?