Subject: RE: Inheriting an attribute from first ancestor that defines it
From: "James Carlyle" <james.carlyle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:43:39 +0100
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Sean
> Now I just have to figure out why:
>
> (ancestor::*/@att)
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> selects elements in document order whereas
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> ancestor::*[@att]
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> selects them in reverse (which is what I'd expect).
At the risk of being corrected by the experts, of which I am not one, I
would say that it is because
ancestor::*[@att]
is selecting ancestors (that have an @att attribute), so ancestor axis order
(reverse) reigns,
whereas
(ancestor::*/@att)
is selecting the child @att attributes of (ancestors), and so the child axis
order (document order) reigns.
Kind regards,
James Carlyle
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