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

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2010-07-28 18:11 +0200, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> I use ancestor-or-self::* to obtain the node sequence from some node
> to the document root.

Remember in XSLT it is ordered in document order even though it was 
addressed in XPath in reverse document order.

> The outermost/top element of the document isn't interesting, so I add
> a predicate, and I find that this works:
>    [position() != last()]

Actually position()>1 will omit the document element.

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

Really?  I would have expected your node list to be in document order.

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

No, that is what I would expect.

> There is a Note in Chapter 7, Repetion, that sounds as if it is
> related to this, but, frankly, I don't understand it.
> What does it mean, in monosyllabic words, please ;-)

I hope this helps: "in XSLT a node set is ordered in document order 
even though it was addressed in XPath in reverse document order".

. . . . . . . .  Ken

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