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In 2.4.1 Insert (and possibly elsewhere) it is stated that the order of the inserted nodes is preserved in the new document. This could be read as referring either to the order of these nodes in the sequence that results from evaluating SourceExpr, or to their position in document order. I suspect the former is intended.
This potential ambiguity can be removed by changing "is preserved" to "preserves the node ordering of the source expression" everywhere in the first three bullets of Section 2.4.1 (Insert). --Don Chamberlin
On 15 Jan 2008, the working group adopted the proposal in Comment #1.