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Re: XPath node-set order

• To: Amy Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Subject: Re: XPath node-set order
• From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:39:53 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20011213183250.GA10480@t...>

> I'm sure there must be a reason for that.  But it seems clear enough
> that in order to handle further predicates acting on a node-set, that
> the order of the nodes as encountered must be preserved.

That's exactly the struggle I had when implementing werken.xpath,
way back when.  Using a literal reading of the spec, I opted for
java.util.Set for my NodeSet, and that failed me when it came to
proximity predicates.

Figured that preserving order, while not explicitly stated, was
at least an implementation requirement.

	-bob

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