Re: reverse and forward order

> Not quite, I think.
Well yes as usual you have to take what i meant not what I wrote:-)
ancestor::* is the oldest ancestor _element_ (I had actually
made reference to / as the parent of that but deleted it 
best not to carry the biblical references too far...

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