xml-dev - Re: Order in an XML document

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@polaris.net>]

At 09:51 AM 5/24/2000 -0400, Michel Rodriguez wrote:
>I was wondering if there is anywhere in the litterature, or even in a
>standard, a definition of the order in an XML document?

Perhaps I am missing the point of your question, but you might take a look 
at the XPath Recommendation's discussion of the preceding:: and following:: 
axes (also maybe the preceding-sibling:: and following::sibling), at:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#axes
The note at the end of that section says:

    NOTE: The ancestor, descendant, following, preceding and self axes
    partition a document (ignoring attribute and namespace nodes):
    they do not overlap and together they contain all the nodes in the
    document.

Also see the note in the third or fourth paragraph down in section 3.3, 
Node-Sets:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-sets

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