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Re: Create XML

• To: Robert DiFalco <rdifalco@t...>, "Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Create XML
• From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:59:26 +0200
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Robert DiFalco wrote:
> How do most people feel about imposing a sibling element order
> significance?
...
> However, it seems harder to write parsers that process elements in a
> random ordering. So often, an arbitrary order is imposed (presumably) to
> make parsing easier. 

It is hard to write a DTD with elements which takes a somewhat
larger number of different child elements in arbitrary order
but each at most once or exactly once.
For me, that's enough to introduce an order constraint.

J.Pietschmann

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