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Re: [xsl] General rule for designing XPath expressions to return items in document order?

2014-01-09 05:07:36
On 9 January 2014 10:51, Costello, Roger L. <costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org> 
wrote:
Hello Martin,

I applied this XPath expression

        //head

to this XML document

<Document>
    <head>
        <head>B</head>
        A
    </head>
</Document>

using oXygen (where SAXON is the XPath processor) and got these results:

A
B

That is, the results are in non-document order.

You are just seeing oXygen's xpath result presentation there... it's
showing you the first <head>'s immediate text node children, but not
its string value.

If you run that xpath as part of a transform, you'll see you get the
string value of the first <head> (so B A) followed be the string value
of the inner <head> (B).


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