Consider the following code snippet running on Guile-3.0.2:
(use-modules (sxml simple)
(sxml xpath))
(define doc
(call-with-input-file "/home/jsynacek/src/xcb-proto-1.13/src/xproto.xml"
(lambda (port)
(xml->sxml port))))
(define events ((sxpath '(// event)) doc))
(display (car events))
(newline)
Now, attributes of *some* elements are generated in reverse order,
which makes the output pretty much undeterministic and using sxml-match
unreliable.
This is from the original xml:
<event name="KeyPress" number="2">
<field type="KEYCODE" name="detail" />
<field type="TIMESTAMP" name="time" />
<field type="WINDOW" name="root" />
...
And the resulting sxml:
(event (@ (number 2) (name KeyPress))
(field (@ (type KEYCODE) (name detail)))
(field (@ (type TIMESTAMP) (name time)))
(field (@ (type WINDOW) (name root)))
...
Attributes 'number' and 'name' are in reverse compared to the original
xml. On the other hand, 'type' and 'name' of the 'field' element are in
correct order.
The xproto.xml file comes from xcb-proto [1].
[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2018-March/011090.html
