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Re: Attribute Order

• To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Attribute Order
• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:22:31 -0800
• References: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E40200AC0C@u...>

Re apps placing requirements on preserving attribute order:

>     That's fine if the
> application totally controls the data format all the way down to the
> character level, and is using XML for some reason that doesn't involve data
> interchange (for example, simply to avoid having to write a parser for some
> internal file format). 

And instead, they're writing a parser for this strange
dialect of XML?  Why not use "real XML" rather than
such an application-specific dialect?

Or are they instead writing code to depend on a
behavior of some particular XML parser that's 
likely not to be shared by other parsers?

The developer in question might be trying to wedge
vendor-specific requirements into an architecture.
If not the intent, that's the result.  Bad idea IMO.

- Dave

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