At 11:21 AM 3/12/2003, I wrote:
(The fact that ancestor:: is a reverse axis has a bearing on which node
you'll get back, for example, from //part/ancestor::*[1], but not on the
"order of nodes" in a set.)
I should have said *nodes*, of course, unless there's only one part.
Cheers!
Wendell
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