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> Thanks--it worked, I used the first one. As for the second, I saw the | > operator earlier but was concerned that it won't guarantee that it > *would* be in document order. The XPath spec seems to be vague on > this[1] -- i.e., whether I can guarantee document order with it, *or* it > just so happens that they way the major XSLT implementations implement > this operator result in it being in document order. A node set (as generated by a path expression or the | operator) _never_ specifies an order in xpath1(that's why it is called a set rather than a list or a sequence). However XSLT1 operations like xsl:apply-templates and xsl:for-each always (effectively) process teh nodes in the selected node set in documet order so <xsl:for-each select="a|b"> is guaranteed to output the result of b before the result of a if b is earlier than a in document order. This node set model is dropped in XPath2 which uses ordered sequences as a basic datatype. So in XSLT2 <xsl:for-each select=" processes the _sequence_ supplied in the select attribute in the order of items in the sequence and in xpath2 the union operator | is defined to merge the two sequences and sort them into document order. So the end result in xslt2 is the same, teh ordering is guaranteed. David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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