RE: Using node-sets in reverse document order?

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

>My understanding of generate-id() is that it must be used blindly:  values
>are not persistent between executions of the stylesheet, but within any one
>execution of the stylesheet the value for each node is persistent ... but
>that is all. 

Yes: what I was saying is that the SAXON implementation of generate-id()
conforms to the spec but also offers some additional guarantees. These
include:
- it will always generate the same id's for the same source document
- the id's will be collated in document order
- the id for a node is a leading substring of the id for its descendant
nodes.

Of course, if you choose to exploit these features you are sacrificing
portability.

Mike Kay


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