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Subject: RE: [xsl] reverse and forward order
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:13:19 +0100

> At 19:16 11/04/2003 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> >ancestor::*[1] selects the immediate ancestor (the parent) 
> >(ancestor::*)[1] selects the ultimate ancestor (the document element)
> >
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> The ultimate ancestor (or ancestor first in document order) 
> is the document 
> node in XSLT 2.0 (root node in XSLT 1.0) not the document 
> element as you 
> suggest above.
> 

I used ancestor::* not ancestor::node() in my example.

Michael Kay
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