Re: [xml-dev] Quick Xpath

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>]

From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>

> What I don't find obvious in the recs is why this "reverse order"
> property is lost when you assign the node set "preceding-sibling::*" to
> a variable, but all the XSLT processors seem to behave consistently in
> this respect.

It would be better if XSLT had
  forward-position()
and
  reverse-position()
which indexed in document order or reverse-document order, and so
  position()
was undefined as far as order. 

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe