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Re: Quick Xpath

• To: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: Re: Quick Xpath
• From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:28:38 +0100
• Cc: "'bob mcwhirter'" <bob@w...>, xml-dev@l...
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• Reply-to: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>

Hello Mike,

> If the DOM interface for XPath specified that nodes could be
> returned in any order, this would be a conformant use of XPath,
> though many users would find it irritating.

Yep. But I guess that most implementers may as well get used to
returning node "sets" in document order now, since they're going to
have to do that anyway when (if) they implement XPath 2.0 and node
*sequences*.

Cheers,

Jeni

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