Re: the nearest ancestor with the attribute

> But what *is* the order of nodes returned by ancestor::*/@attr

XPath expressions select node sets. The distinguishing feature of a
set (as opposed to a list) is that it is unordered.

(Many operations on that set take the nodes in document order, but that
is a propoerty of the operation being applied, not of the set itself)

David


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