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RE: RE: Postional predicates de-mystified
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:01:00 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] RE: Postional predicates de-mystified
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Mike Kay wrote:
> Evan's explanation I thought was excellent, but it used the
> terminology of
> XPath 1.0 (which seems approrpriate for its intended
> audience).
Fully agree Mike. Very clear. I mentioned the changes in 2.0 simply
because I was reading it at the time, and the 'changes'
struck me as odd.
>The behavior
> of these constructs in XPath 2.0 is unchanged, but the
> terminology used for
> explaining the behavior has changed considerably.
> A sequence can be in any order. A path expression always
> returns a sequence
> of nodes that are in document order.
Curious about the shift from node-set to sequence then.
Was it because of all the discussion (confusion?) on the list
re sets?
Regards DaveP.
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