RE: [xml-dev] Re: xpath: which is right?

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> itym XML::XPath is wrong then as it is the one which uses document 
> order, as opposed to libxslt which uses reversed document order.

In both XPath 1.0 and 2.0, nodes on a reverse axis are *numbered* in reverse
document order, but *delivered* in forwards document order.

Michael Kay

(slight caveat for 1.0: XPath doesn't define in what order the nodes are
delivered, but XSLT does).