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Re: Should we care about elements order ?

  • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>,"xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:07:40 -0700

Re: Should we care about elements order ?
At 05:20 PM 20/10/00 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>1) Should we always pay attention to the relative order of the elements
>within XML documents ?

No.  Tons of conventional business data is oblivious to the order of
its fields, and one of the nice things about an RDBMS is that I can
arrange for the rows of the table and the colums of a row to be in
any order I like.

XML is differentiated in that it is *possible* (not necessary) to deal 
with order-significant data.  The most obvious examples where this is 
useful are in the publishing space, but there are others.  In my opinion, 
this is the one aspect of XML that is the hardest to deal with when
trying to apply traditional relational technology. -Tim


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