Bob's article has miscopied the relevant text from the spec. If you follow
the link to the text it is quoting, you will read:

[Definition: A sequence is an ordered collection of zero or more items.] 

Michael Kay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 July 2005 09:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Unordered sequences in XPath 2.0
> 
> I am reading this article -
> http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/02/02/xpath2.html
> 
> It says..
> "A sequence is an unordered collection of zero or more
> items."
> (Please note the word unordered).
> 
> Then it says, "An XPath expression describes a set of
> nodes, the value of that XPath expression is a
> sequence". 
> 
> This means, that the sequence representation of XPath
> 2.0 expression will be unordered.. Is this true? I
> think, this was not the case with XPath 1.0? 
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> 
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