Re: [xsl] key() and ordering of resulting node-set

Subject: Re: [xsl] key() and ordering of resulting node-set
From: Ronan Klyne <ronan.klyne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:50:45 +0000
Ah! I was reading the 1.0 spec, and couldn't find an explicit statement
of ordering.
FYI, XT seems to return nodes in reverse document order...

	# r

James A. Robinson wrote:
>> Is it possible to guarantee the ordering of the node-set returned by key()?
>> If not, is it possible to force the order to document order?
>> I have looked to the spec, but to no avail...
> 
> According to the 2.0 CR it is document order:
> 
>   The result of the function is a sequence of nodes, 
>   in document order and with duplicates removed
> 
> from http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#keys
> 
> Jim
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