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RE: Why doesn't XML have Bag?

• From: "Matthew Sergeant (EML)" <Matthew.Sergeant@e...>
• To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@i...
• Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:01:37 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roger L. Costello [SMTP:costello@m...]
> 
> Why doesn't XML support the notion of an unordered list of elements,
> i.e., a Bag?  Perhaps this is a limitation of DTD, not XML?  That is,
> DTDs do not support Bags, but XML has no such inherent limitation?  Does
> DCD support Bags?  /Roger
> 
	Unordered list in XML:

	<ul>
		<li>An Item</li>
		<li>Another Item</li>
	</ul>

	Ordered list in XML:

	<ol>
		<li>Item 1</li>
		<li>Item 2</li>
	</ol>

	The point is an unordered list is an application level issue, not an
XML level issue - it's easy to implement one at your application level. Nay
- I would go as far as to say it's trivial.

Matt.
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