note 77747 added to function.dom-domxpath-query

The order of nodes in the return value is not guaranteed. When my code was on an old server, the returned DOMNodeList was in document order. On the new server, the returned DOMNodeList is in a consistent order, but it is not in document order. PHP passes this function call off to the xmlXPathEvalExpression() function in libxml. That function in libxml only accepts two arguments - the same two this PHP function accepts. There must have been a change in the libxml version from the old server to the new server, and that libxml behaves differently. This would be okay if PHP had a way to compare nodes so I can resort the nodes manually, but there is not. So, there is no guaranteed way to get an ordered list of nodes like DOM 3 XPath provides. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 71.159.54.54 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domxpath-query.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77747 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77747 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77747 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php