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Subject: Re: [xsl] General rule for designing XPath expressions to return items in document order? From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:13:38 +0000 |
On 9 Jan 2014, at 10:51, Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Martin, > > I applied this XPath expression > > //head > > to this XML document > > <Document> > <head> > <head>B</head> > A > </head> > </Document> > > using oXygen (where SAXON is the XPath processor) and got these results: > > A > B > > That is, the results are in non-document order. > You've asked for two <head> elements but you haven't said how you want them displayed; that decision is being made by Oxygen. I don't know why it's choosing to display the two <head> elements in this way, but it's quite outside the scope of the XPath specification. Michael Kay Saxonica
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