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2.4.1 Document Order "An ordering called document order is defined among all the nodes accessible during processing of a given expression, which may consist of one or more trees (documents or fragments). Document order is defined in [XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.1], and its definition is repeated here for convenience. Document order is a total ordering, although the relative order of some nodes is implementation-dependent. [Definition: Informally, document order is the order in which nodes appear in the XML serialization of a document.] " Correct link for XDM: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-31/#document-order 2.4 Document Order BTW, the definition in XDM reads: "[Definition: A document order is defined among all the nodes accessible during a given query or transformation. Document order is a total ordering, although the relative order of some nodes is implementation-dependent. Informally, document order is the order in which nodes appear in the XML serialization of a document.]" Compare: [Definition: Informally, document order is the order in which nodes appear in the XML serialization of a document.] " I would simply insert the reference and/or quote the relevant definition rather than attempting to recast it. [Will this make parsers faint and strong users curse? No but it is symptomatic.]
I fixed the reference, but did not eliminate the duplicate description, which has been there for a very long time.