Re: Sorting and position

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kay Michael wrote:

> Actually there seems to be a terminology problem in the spec here. The spec
> on sorting says that "the current node list consists of the complete list of
> nodes being processed in sorted order", but the concept of "current node
> list" has disappeared from XPath: position() is now defined to return the
> "context position from the expression evaluation context".

XSLT uses the concept of a current node list.  XPath uses the concept of
a context position and context size.  Section 4 of XSLT specifies how
the initial XPath context position and context size is computed from the
current node and current node list.

James



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