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Re: the nearest ancestor with the attribute
> But what *is* the order of nodes returned by ancestor::*/@attr
XPath expressions select node sets. The distinguishing feature of a
set (as opposed to a list) is that it is unordered.
(Many operations on that set take the nodes in document order, but that
is a propoerty of the operation being applied, not of the set itself)
David
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