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Re: relying on ordering of sibling XML elements

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• Subject: Re: relying on ordering of sibling XML elements
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:19:31 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <20020803160108.92831.qmail@w...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <20020803160108.92831.qmail@w...> you write:
>
>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".

-- Richard

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