• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: RE: Quick Xpath
• From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:39:10 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: Mark Feblowitz <mfeblowitz@f...>, "'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@j...>, Garland foster <garland_foster@s...>, "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1026944989.19731.492.camel@ibook>

> Finally a word to say that even though the preceding-sibling is a
> "reverse" axis, a copy-of or apply-templates on "preceding-sibling::*"
> would take the nodes by document order: the "reverse order" property
> only affects the position -as returned by the "position()" function- of
> the nodes, not their physical position in the node set...

Though, unless otherwise specified (ie, in c14n), a node set is indeed
a -set-, with no particular order implied.

	-bob

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