Re: Question regarding order in XPath
Philippe Michiels <[email protected]>
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Doesn't the XPath 2.0 rec. specify the attribute and namespace axes as forward axes? http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#axes It also states that only reverse axes bind the position variable in reverse order: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-predicates Cheers, Philippe On Friday 21 May 2004 21:17, Murali Mani wrote: > Hi: > > I believe this should be mentioned somewhere in the spec; but I could not > find it.. > > I see that in XPath you mention that forward axes return a sequence of > nodes in document order, and reverse axes return a sequence of nodes in > reverse document order. > > My question is regarding attribute and namespace axes; they are classified > as forward axes; so what is the result order? > > best, murali. -- Philippe Michiels Universiteit Antwerpen ADReM (Advanced Database Research and Modelling) http://www.adrem.ua.ac.be/~michiels