>From XSLT terminology FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslvocab.html
>
>"DOCUMENT ORDER:A traversal of the document tree from start to end, in 
>written order. The ancestor and preceding axes use reverse document order 
>and the attribute and namespace axes are unordered. If parentheses are used 
>for grouping, you will always get forward document order."

Actually the quote is wrong (DAVEP:-)
the attribute and namespace are both forwards axes.

What Dave means about paremthesese is

ancestor::*[1] gives you the first ancestor in reverse document order
               ie your parent 
whereas
(ancestor::*)[1] gives you your first ancestor in document order, ie
                your most ancient ancestor; Adam (or Eve) in some
               cultures.

David

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