Re: sorting, was: Version 3.0 now available!

[Philipp L. <le...@hi...>]

From: "Peter Robins" <php...@pe...>
>..
> How do you sort that, other than in document order?
> And if you add a further nnn <p> nodes - the norm in document files - how
can
> they be used if not in document order? In what order can the 'nodes' of,
say,
> a Shakespeare play be processed other than the one he wrote?!
>..

Yes. And also I could imagine a dozen other cases, except my current one
where I'd need it.
Imagine you want to build a table-of-contents for an XHTML page.
The most reasonable expression to me seems to be:
    //h1 | //h2 | //h3 | //h4 | //h5 | //h6
and then process this e.g. building a nested list.
It's very important here that an h2 following an h1 in the original document
can be understood as belonging to this h1 as a sub-heading.
(I do the above in an MSXML4-based Content Management System.)