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Is order in XML guaranteed?

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• Subject: Is order in XML guaranteed?
• From: "Chen, Andrew ." <ChenA@w...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:05:54 -0500

Hi,

If we have data items like this:
<data>
  <d>5.0</d>
  <d>6.0</d>
</data>

We know for sure that in the application logic, we add 5.0, and then add
6.0, in a specific order.  Since we are storing big amount of data (1-D
array, usually 200 items), we want to MAKE SURE that data retrieved are in
the right order we put in.

The question is: does the XML spec, or parser spec guarantee these 2 items
to be stored/retrieved in order ?

If not, then do we have to do this:

<data>
  <d seq="1">5.0</d>
  <d seq="2">6.0</d>
</data>


Thanks
--
Andrew H. Chen
Engineering Computing & US BWR
Westinghouse Electric Company

(+1)-412-374-2316

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