- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:20:45 +0100
- To: "'Murali Mani'" <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>
- Cc: <www-ql@w3.org>
> > Is there a difference between XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0? I > guess XPath 1.0 > never talked about returning a sequence, it mentions return a set of > nodes, though "it was often assumed" by xml-dev folks that it > returns a > sequence..?? XPath 1.0 returned a set of nodes in no particular order; but XSLT 1.0 always chose to process these nodes in document order. People calling XPath from other environments, e.g. a Java API, have tended to assume the nodes will be in document order, and in practice they probably are, but the XPath 1.0 spec doesn't guarantee it. Michael Kay
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