[xquery-talk] Node sorting of node from different documents in paths

[John Snelson]

Hi Frans,

That's my understanding of the specification as well.

John

Frans Englich wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> What should this query evaluate to?
> 
> 	declare function local:function($arg)
> 	{
> 		<e>{$arg}</e>
> 	};
> 	(<a>1</a>, <a>2</a>)/local:function(string(.))
> 
> My conclusion is that it can either evaluate to:
> 
> 	<e>2</e><e>1</e>
> 
> or
> 
> 	<e>1</e><e>2</e>
> 
> because the node sorting done at the end is working on temporary/separate tree 
> fragments(the ones returned from the function) and therefore the order is 
> implementation dependent(but stable).
> 
> That's how I read the spec, but on the other hand I find it counter intuitive 
> for the user, so maybe I've missed something?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 		Frans
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