location set vs. location list

The current XPointer working draft states in section 2:

[Definition: 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.

Actually, this corresponds to XPath's node list, not to XPath's node
set. The difference is that a node set is unordered according to both
the standard meaning of the word "set" and to the XPath 1.0 spec, which
states in section 1:

  node-set (an unordered collection of nodes without duplicates) 

This should be able to be fixed with editorial changes without changing
any of the functionality of XPointer. However, the editorial changes
might be large, particularly if you change the term "location set" to
"location list" (whihc I would recommend, assuming you really did intend
that location sets be ordered). 

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