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> >Question - does "proper" XML document design permit > >deriving a semantic meaning from the ordering of XML > >sibling elements? > > Yes. > > Observe that the Infoset (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/) describes > the [children] property of an element as "an ordered list of child > information items, in document order". Contrast this with [attributes] > which is "an unordered set of attribute information items". MathML ( http://www.w3.org/math ) has many elements (such as the <msup> element) that depend on document order, for example. -- Jimmy Cerra ============================================ "my mind is slipping away... ...day by glorious day" Robin Gorkin ============================================
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