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> <snip> > NOTE: The meaning of a Predicate depends crucially on which > axis applies. > For example, preceding::foo[1] returns the first foo element > in reverse > document order, because the axis that applies to the [1] > predicate is the > preceding axis; by contrast, (preceding::foo)[1] returns the first foo > element in document order, because the axis that applies to the [1] > predicate is the child axis. > </snip> This paragraph is one of the most contorted pieces of explanation in the entire spec. They could have simply said that in a filter expression, the nodes are in document order, whereas in a step, they are in either forwards or reverse document order depending on the axis. Bringing in the child axis as a notional axis for filter expressions, which is merely a device for ensuring that filter expressions are in forwards order, is an amazingly obscure way of achieving this simple effect, especially as the nodes do not need to be children of anything. Mike K XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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