Re: Node Set and Node List differentiation

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ "Gulzar, Nadir" <ngulzar@xxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| I inferred the following based on the context. Can somebody please confirm
| or clarify the following.
| 
| Node Set: Nodes that have common parent element type in the hierarchy. This
| is essential when using UnionExpr since subsequent filters would require
| consistency in the element type of input nodes.

I don't think there's any requirement that a node-set contain
only nodes that have a common parent. Using doc(), I can imagine
constructing a node set that contains nodes from different
documents (all nodes from the same document have at least one
common parent).

| Node List: Could be a 'Node set' but not necessarily. This is a context list
| of nodes that contain nodes of different types from arbitrary levels (in the
| document order).

By my reading of the spec, a node list is the list of nodes that
the processor is currently "working on". You can't instantiate a
node list, per se. And I don't think there's any reason to
expect the node list to be in document order.

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                                          norm
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