Re: Match order

Hello, Daniel:

"/*/ad-keyword-list/ad-keyword" will collect an unordered node set, which
means the nodes in this node
set would be arranged in their document order unless they are sorted by
xsl:sort. So, in your question,
it should be a part of the spec in XPath.

Frank

> Hi All,
>
> Here is my question:  If I run the following two XSL match queries ( as in
> example below ), am I guaranteed to get the matches for the attribute
names
> and the values in the same order?  In other words, could I successfully
> correlate the resulting arrays afterwords?
>
> Is this dependent on parsers? Or is it part of the spec?
>
> 1) /*/ad-keyword-list/ad-keyword/@name
>
> 2) /*/ad-keyword-list/ad-keyword
> on an XML file with a structure as:
>
> <ad-keyword-list>
> <ad-keyword name="test1">hey1</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test13">hey13</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test14">hey14</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test15">hey15</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test16">hey16</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test17">hey17</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test18">hey18</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test19">hey19</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test2">hey2</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test3">hey3</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test4">hey4</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test5">hey5</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test6">hey6</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test7">hey7</ad-keyword>
> <ad-keyword name="test8">hey8</ad-keyword>
> </ad-keyword-list>
>
>
>
>
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