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• Subject: RE: relying on ordering of sibling XML elements
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 16:59:30 -0400
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XML is absolutely ordered. You're free to ignore that order, but 
parsers must and do preserve it. People who assume order doesn't 
matter tend to to be thinking too hard about record-like structures 
and forgetting completely about XML's original use-case of 
narrative-like structures.
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