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Re: Attribute Order (Was: Create XML )

• To: AndrewWatt2000@a...
• Subject: Re: Attribute Order (Was: Create XML )
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:33:37 -0700
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AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:

> Thinking back to XML 1.0, why is it that attributes are not ordered?

Historically, the mental model of attributes was a set of name/value 
pairs.  Thus the uniqueness and lack of ordering.  It does allow you, 
for example, to represent the attributes of an element with a hash in 
Perl or the equivalent in many other programming environments.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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