Order of nodes in xsl:for-each nodeset (Xalan-J)

[Brian J. Sayatovic]

I'm using Xalan-J to loop through some nodes with an xsl:for-each element, presumably in document order. As far as I can tell, the XSL speciciation says that a for-each element will loop through the nodeset in document order, meaning the order the elements occur in the document. Does Xalan-J obey this rule?

I'm encountering some oddities that could be explained if Xalan-J does not adhere to this, but it is a very rare circumstance, so its hard to test.

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm using Xalan-J to loop through some nodes with an xsl:for-each element, presumably in document order. As far as I can tell, the XSL speciciation says that a for-each element will loop through the nodeset in document order, meaning the order the elements occur in the document. Does Xalan-J obey this rule?

I'm encountering some oddities that could be explained if Xalan-J does not adhere to this, but it is a very rare circumstance, so its hard to test.

The XSLT 1.0 specification says about xsl:for-each:

The nodes are processed in document order, unless a sorting specification is present.

I don't know whether Xalan-J has some bug, that might depend on the version of it. Do you get different results for the same XML document and XSL document when you try another XSLT processor?