• From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@j...>
• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>,"'XML-DEV'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:32:51 +0800

>In general there are very few answers in the spec. about what is
>"significant" or not. Where does it say that element order is significant?
>That's what the infoset group is all about.
>
>I would say that everything should be presumed significant until the
>infoset group says otherwise.


This also relates to the XML Canonicalization work. The order is significant
if it is preserved under canonicalization.

James
(not speaking for the canonicalization work)


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