Examples

The repetition path /directory/customer/city/text() is in effect, and the order of XPath expressions is as follows. Notice that the first occurrence of the node division precedes the first occurrence of the node city.

Column	XPath expression
`CUSTOMER`	`/directory/customer/@name`
`DIVISION`	`/directory/customer/division/text()`
`CITY`	`/directory/customer/city/text()`

The input data consists of four rows:

CUSTOMER	DIVISION	CITY
Acme	Toys	Boston
Acme	Toys	New York
Acme	Chemical	Boston
Acme	Chemical	New York

Because the node division precedes city, the output is as follows:

<directory>
   <customer name="Acme">
      <division>Toys</division>
      <city>Boston</city>
      <city>New York</city>
   </customer>
   <customer name="Acme">
      <division>Chemical</division>
      <city>Boston</city>
      <city>New York</city>
   </customer>
</directory>

If you reorder the XPath expressions, the result changes. For example, the XPath expression for CITY is now in the middle position:

Column	XPath expression
`CUSTOMER`	`/directory/customer/city/text()`
`CITY`	`/directory/customer/city/text()`
`DIVISION`	`/directory/customer/division/text()`

This reordering generates the following output:

<directory>
   <customer name="Acme">
      <city>Boston</city>
      <city>New York</city>
      <division>Toys</division>
         </customer>
   <customer name="Acme">
      <city>Boston</city>
      <city>New York</city>
      <division>Toys</division>
         </customer>
</directory>