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At 08:09 PM 5/23/98 -0700, Charles Frankston wrote: >> Note that the XML declaration has a required order of pseudo-attribute >> occurrence. It would be best if the XML-family of language were >> consistent. >> >> [23] XMLDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>' >> > >Yes, this is a good point about the XML Decl. Does Tim Bray care to comment >here? Yes. At the moment, the XML declaration has a required order in which the bits must appear. However, the namespace declaration, which looks (on the face of it) remarkably similar, does not. Yes, I find this irritating. My vote was for the namespace declarations to be strictly ordered for consistency with the XML declaration, but I lost. My opinion is that 1. Because the XML spec BNF doesn't have the &-connector, it's hard and inelegant to specify required-but-unordered; so I didn't bother for the XML declaration, and neither Michael nor anyone else caught me on this. 2. My WG colleagues *did* catch this in the namespace declaration, and were more irritated by the strict ordering than by the inconsistency; this leads to the current situation. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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