• To: "'Suzan Foster'" <su@i...>,"'Dimitre Novatchev'" <dnovatchev@y...>
• Subject: RE: Re: xpath: which is right?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:18:10 +0100
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> itym XML::XPath is wrong then as it is the one which uses document 
> order, as opposed to libxslt which uses reversed document order.

In both XPath 1.0 and 2.0, nodes on a reverse axis are *numbered* in reverse
document order, but *delivered* in forwards document order.

Michael Kay

(slight caveat for 1.0: XPath doesn't define in what order the nodes are
delivered, but XSLT does).

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