Re: [xsl] ancestor::* and for-each

[Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Laun wrote:

  Hi,

> Apparently, the sequence goes from leaf to root, which is the
> closing tag order, as it should be.

> Then, I iterate over the sequence, and now the nodes are
> processed from root to leaf, which is strange.

  Within the same step (so including the predicate), a reverse
axis is evaluated in reverse document order.  But outside of the
step it is used, it is in document order.  This is the typical
example of the difference between both following expressions:

    ancestor::*[2]
    (ancestor::*)[2]

  Regards,

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