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• Subject: Re: Quick Xpath
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:41:06 +1000
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From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>

> What I don't find obvious in the recs is why this "reverse order"
> property is lost when you assign the node set "preceding-sibling::*" to
> a variable, but all the XSLT processors seem to behave consistently in
> this respect.

It would be better if XSLT had
  forward-position()
and
  reverse-position()
which indexed in document order or reverse-document order, and so
  position()
was undefined as far as order. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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