It seems to me that there is an error in the 8th January 2001 XPointer WD. It states as a definition of "location-set": "An ordered list of locations, such as produced by an XPointer expression. This corresponds to the node-set that is produced by XPath expressions, except for the generalization to include points and ranges." However the November 1999 XPath Recommendation defines a node-set as: "an unordered collection of nodes without duplicates" Thus there appears, contrary to the XPointer WD, to be a further distinction between an XPointer location-set and an XPath node-set in that the location-set is _ordered_ while an XPath node-set is _UNordered_. The alternative interpretation is that if an XPointer location-set is a generalisation of an XPath node-set to include points and ranges then it too is unordered. I couldn't readily find clarification in the XPointer WD. Andrew WattReceived on Thursday, 18 January 2001 15:00:59 GMT
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