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> Not the same node, yes, but nodes which have the same values for > all > their attributes and attributes of subelements (i.e., which are > deep-equal). Such nodes may be exchanged in the node set without > changing the behavior of any XPath query. > I regard the whole notion of "Deep-Equal Nodes" as a misconception: 1. It already confused people into thinking that indistinguishable nodes could exist. 2. Letting such "indistinguishable" pairs of nodes in an xml document has all problems and anomalies of non-normalized data. 3. This will also lead to artificially increasing the necessary memory and processing time for an XML document. How to avoid such nodes? Here's one simple way: <node1 ID="id1"> <!-- Any contents goes here --> </node1> <node2 RefID="id1"/> Dimitre. __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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