RE: Question regarding order in XPath

Thanks. I could see what you have mentioned in the spec.

Is there a difference between XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0? I guess XPath 1.0
never talked about returning a sequence, it mentions return a set of
nodes, though "it was often assumed" by xml-dev folks that it returns a
sequence..??

best, murali.

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Michael Kay wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
> Are we talking XPath 1.0 or 2.0?
>
> Either way, the statement isn't accurate. The result is always in document
> order, regardless of the axis direction. But the binding of the current
> position depends on the axis order.
> >
> > My question is regarding attribute and namespace axes; they
> > are classified
> > as forward axes; so what is the result order?
>
> They are forward axes, though of course it doesn't matter very much, because
> the order of nodes on these axes is implementation-defined.
>
> Michael Kay