> Hi everybody,
>
> I hope I don't mention a known problem though I checked the xsl faq and the
> list archives.
>
> I experienced strange behaviour depending on the debug settings of the
> processor (see processor version below).
>
> Vendor: Apache Software Foundation
> Vendor URL: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j
>
>
>
> I am using the following stylesheet:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="D">
> <xsl:for-each select="A">
> <xsl:sort select="POSITION" data-type="number"
> order="ascending"/>
> <xsl:element name="PositionNr">
> <xsl:value-of select="POSITION"/>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> The input file looks like this:
>
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "ISO-8859-1"?>
> <D>
> <A>
> <POSITION>5</POSITION>
> <ACTION>1</ACTION>
> </A>
> <A>
> <POSITION>1</POSITION>
> <ACTION>1</ACTION>
> </A>
> <A>
> <POSITION>3</POSITION>
> <ACTION>1</ACTION>
> </A>
> </D>
>
>
> Without debugging options (command line inline), the result looks like this
> (obviously correct):
>
> t:/Programme/JRE/1.4.1/bin/java.exe -cp
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/classes/xalan.jar
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/java/newtron/system/impl/a2a/std/ressources/mapping/test/xml/test_sort.xml
>
> -xsl
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/java/newtron/system/impl/a2a/std/ressources/mapping/test/xslt/test_sort.xslt
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <PositionNr>1</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>3</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>5</PositionNr>
>
>
> But enabling debugging (for instance trace selection events = -TS), the
> result is different (though using the same input):
>
> t:/Programme/JRE/1.4.1/bin/java.exe -cp
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/classes/xalan.jar
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -TS -in
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/java/newtron/system/impl/a2a/std/ressources/mapping/test/xml/test_sort.xml
> -xsl
> d:/cvsworking/nl/dev/java/newtron/system/impl/a2a/std/ressources/mapping/test/xslt/test_sort.xslt
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <PositionNr>1</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>3</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>5</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>5</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>1</PositionNr>
> <PositionNr>3</PositionNr>
>
>
> As you can see, in the second case, firstly all nodes are sorted correctly,
> but additional the same nodes are added in document order.
>
> Is this a "design mistake" by me (xslt) or a bug/something specific to xalan
> ?
>
> Thx a lot in advance
>
> Cheers Nick
