On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Steve Muench wrote:
> These should be exactly the elements on the
> ancestor-or-self axis so a select="ancesor-or-self::*"
> should return the node list of elements
> including yourself in the "stack" (in reverse document order)

Yep.  Found it, thanks!   XT returns the list in document order,
and the specification states that lacking a sort clause,
the for-each construct always returns things in document order...
thus,the solution is portable!  I'm thrilled.


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