Re: [xsl] General rule for designing XPath expressions to return items in document order?

Subject: Re: [xsl] General rule for designing XPath expressions to return items in document order?
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:54:25 +0000
On 08/01/2014 11:41, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
I'm confused. David says one thing, the spec says the opposite. Who's right?

Well me of course:-)


Or trust saxon:

<section>
	<section>
		<head>a</head>	<!-- A -->
	</section>
	<head>b</head>	    	<!-- B -->
</section>


<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>


<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:sequence select="//section/head"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>





$ saxon9 sec.xml sec.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><head>a</head><head>b</head>


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