Re: creation order vs. document order

Hello Michael,

Michael Brundage wrote:
> 
> Completely separately from this, every node in the data model is ordered
> relative to every other one.  Your query happens to be creating a sequence
> of c elements, each in its own fragment.  Consider the two queries below:
> 
> let $tree1 := (<x><y/><y/></x>)/y
> return $tree1[1] << $tree1[2]
> 
> always returns true.  The two y child elements of x are siblings of one
> another, and the first one always comes before the second in document order.

That's actually true regardless of whether the children of the x element 
are in document order or not because the let clause uses a path 
expression which returns always a result in document order.

-- 
    Jan Hidders

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