• To: "XML Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: malfunctioning, evil adult as XML
• From: "Bryce K. Nielsen" <bryce@s...>
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:15:54 -0700
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> I wouldn't enjoy this. Elements and attributes are not the same
> thing. Attributes don't have order. Elements do. Elements can contain
> other elements. Attributes can't. If I don't need attributes, I just
> won't use them.
>

Elements have order? I thought native in XML, elements were unordered.

I don't mean to keep bringing this up, but a lot of posts I read here talk
about elements being ordered, so I'm often confused since I've always
thought one of the powers of XML was the ability to allow unordered
elements?

-BKN

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