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Re: DOM / XPath / Reverse axis?

From: "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@---------.------>
To: NULL
Date: 5/2/2007 5:24:00 PM

What's confusing though is that internally SelectSingleNode just calls 
selectNodes and returns the first node in the list.
I think it's to do with the fact that you have a position predicate in the 
XPath though.
I will try a few tests to try and sort it out.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name

"Francesca Baslen" <francesca.baslen@g...> wrote in message 
news:4638a41c$0$15956$426a74cc@n......
> Joe Fawcett was caught writing:
>> If you use SelectSingleNode on a reverse axis it gets the closest node to 
>> the context. If you use SelectNodes you then have a NodeList which 
>> contains the nodes in document order.
>>
> Hello Joe,
> Thanks for your answer... but according to my tests (see my previous 
> post), the behaviour is precisely opposite of what you say:
> with SelectNodes I get a node list that follows the reverse axis order 
> starting from the context node, whereas SelectSingleNode selects the first 
> node in the document order.
> Strange!
> F


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