[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-node-before
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#document-order

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM,<mlcook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One additional question, please:

Preceding nodes do not include ancestors, which I've thought is odd. It includes siblings, but not parent or grand-parent, etc.

When looking at an XML file in an editor, ancestors surely seem to be preceding where I am in the document.

Ancestors  start before where you are but they have not ended,
therefore they don't precede you.

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