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Re: Order of attributes

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• Subject: Re: Order of attributes
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 21:10:27 -0400
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On May 6, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Richard Tobin wrote:
>> More practically, if a parser guarantees reporting attributes to the
>> application in their order of occurrence in a document, would this be 
>> a
>> reason to declare the parser incompliant with XML 1.0?
>
> No, of course not.  An XML editor is the obvious example of an
> application that can benefit from that information.  But an XML editor
> does not use an XML document for its semantics.

That's not true... some/many editors are built directly on top of DOM 
implementations, or something akin to the DOM.

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