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RE: relying on ordering of sibling XML elements

• To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: relying on ordering of sibling XML elements
• From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>
• Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 19:47:33 -0400
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• In-reply-to: <200208031619.RAA23808@r...>
• Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CCAC
• Reply-to: <jc2astro@h...>

> >Question - does "proper" XML document design permit
> >deriving a semantic meaning from the ordering of XML
> >sibling elements?
>
> Yes.
>
> Observe that the Infoset (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/) describes
> the [children] property of an element as "an ordered list of child
> information items, in document order".  Contrast this with [attributes]
> which is "an unordered set of attribute information items".

MathML ( http://www.w3.org/math ) has many elements (such as the <msup>
element) that depend on document order, for example.

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Jimmy Cerra

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