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Subject: RE: Inheriting an attribute from first ancestor that defines it
From: "James Carlyle" <james.carlyle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 17:43:39 +0100
attribute of ancestor
Sean

> Now I just have to figure out why:
>
>     (ancestor::*/@att)
>
> selects elements in document order whereas
>
>     ancestor::*[@att]
>
> selects them in reverse (which is what I'd expect).

At the risk of being corrected by the experts, of which I am not one, I
would say that it is because

ancestor::*[@att]

is selecting ancestors (that have an @att attribute), so ancestor axis order
(reverse) reigns,

whereas

(ancestor::*/@att)

is selecting the child @att attributes of (ancestors), and so the child axis
order (document order) reigns.

Kind regards,

James Carlyle

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