> Is it possible to guarantee the ordering of the node-set returned by key()?
> If not, is it possible to force the order to document order?
> I have looked to the spec, but to no avail...

According to the 2.0 CR it is document order:

  The result of the function is a sequence of nodes, 
  in document order and with duplicates removed

from http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#keys

Jim

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