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I have this sentence:

When (or As?) a node matching the anchor “Results” is visited, the subsequent nodes will be regarded in the scope of the context which begins with this anchor.

I doubt if I can say it as

When a node is visited which matches the anchor “Results”, the subsequent nodes will be regarded in the scope of the context which begins with this anchor.

In the second sentence I want to imply that matching occurs after visiting, while I think the first sentence doesn't imply this.

Am I right?

By the way my original sentence was:

By visiting a node which matches the anchor “Results”, the subsequent nodes will be counted in the scope of this context.

But I wasn't sure about its structure.

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The original sentence is more clear in this situation. It also has the advantage of conveying the fact that visiting occurs before matching. You could try substituting "which" with "that" if you wanted to make the sentence sound slightly better.

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