Re: [xsl] XQuery/XPath 3.1: Node List to Node Set ("distinct nodes")

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29.12.2021 20:06, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:27 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
> <mailto:martin.honnen@xxxxxx> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>  >B  I don't have to know one, I just pointed out that the spec doesn't
>  >B B  guarantee the order. Thus I don't see why, given the spec, one
should
>  >B B  expect any implementation to preserve the order.
>
> I am happy to state that the provided solution produces the correct
> result on all currently-existing XPath engines :)

As if you had or could verify that. As I said, eXist-db is struggling
with generate-id based approaches, at least if nodes from different
document (fragments?) are involved.