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Re: Xpath/XSLT 2 Nov 15 drafts: order of reverse axis selection

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:04:58 GMT
Message-Id: <200211220004.AAA31110@nag.co.uk>
To: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
CC: public-qt-comments@w3.org



> No. The intent is definitely that all "path expressions" (in the familiar
> sense of the term) will return nodes in document order.

Ah good (I think). That's certainly the most compatible option.
As you noted there is a gap in the spec as I assumed that this wasn't
the case as the spec took such care to explain doc order is imposed by /
which lead me to assume that it wasn't imposed for single steps.

David

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