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

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This sentence was of course condensing the spec like crazy. Look for the
rules for <xsl:for-each> and <xsl:apply-templates> when there is no
<xsl:sort> element.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Tolpin [mailto:dvd@davidashen.net] 
> Sent: 04 April 2004 16:07
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Re: xpath: which is right?
> 
> > > 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).
> 
> I've searched XSLT 1.0 specification for string 'deliver' and didn't
> find any matches. How does the specification define the order of
> delivery?
> 
> David
> 
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