Re: [basex-talk] Controlling order of attributes with updates

Hi Jonathan,

Is there any way for me to control the order of attributes in BaseX when I insert new attributes?

If you evaluate the following XQuery expression in BaseX …

<a b='b' c='c'/>

… you can be sure that the attributes will be placed in the original order. Please note that we cannot give a guarantee that this will stay that way forever, even though it’s unlikely to change.

If you have an existing element, you can reinsert all attributes in the order you want:

let $a := <a b='b' c='c'/> return element { node-name($a) } { $a/@*, attribute d { 'd' }, $a/node() }

How do you currently proceed?

Best, Christian