On Thu, January 9, 2014 10:51 am, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
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.
Your reported results don't match your XPath applied to your document, but
the order of the <head> containing 'A' (ignoring the child <head>) then
the <head> containing 'B' is document order because the <head> containing
'A' starts before the <head> containing 'B'.
If you selected text nodes (and ignored all white-space), then 'B' would
come before 'A'.
Your reported results don't match your XPath applied to your document
since the first <head> is:
<head>
<head>B</head>
A
</head>
with a string value ignoring, rather than just normalising, white-space
(if that's what you were reporting) of 'BA'.
Regards,
Tony Graham tgraham(_at_)mentea(_dot_)net
Consultant http://www.mentea.net
Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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