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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Gareth Harper wrote: > If, for example I have the following piece of xml > > <parent> > <child attribute="blah1"/> > <child attribute="blah2"/> > <child attribute="blah3"/> > </parent> > > is it written (in the XML spec) anywhere that the parser must return those > child nodes in the order that they have been given. I know it sounds right > that it should, but I need to know if this is in the spec (this is for a > boolean evaluation system I'm writing in XML / PERL and I need to know if > for safety's sake I should put some ordering information in my children > (variables), or if this is built into this spec) > Look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset#infoitem.element, which makes it clear that elements are ordered, attributes unordered. The DOM spec (which talks about what parsers must do) defers to this document for such questions: "The Document Object Model does not define what information in a document is relevant or how information in a document is structured. For XML, this is specified by the W3C XML Information Set [Infoset]." Presumably other XML parsing models (e.g., SAX) are similarly guided by the Infoset document. -- Bob Kline mailto:bkline@r... http://www.rksystems.com
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