Subject: RE: reverse and forward order
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:13:19 +0100
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> At 19:16 11/04/2003 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> >ancestor::*[1] selects the immediate ancestor (the parent)
> >(ancestor::*)[1] selects the ultimate ancestor (the document element)
> >
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> Are you sure?
>
> The ultimate ancestor (or ancestor first in document order)
> is the document
> node in XSLT 2.0 (root node in XSLT 1.0) not the document
> element as you
> suggest above.
>
I used ancestor::* not ancestor::node() in my example.
Michael Kay
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