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Re: Is order in XML guaranteed?

• To: "Chen, Andrew ." <ChenA@w...>
• Subject: Re: Is order in XML guaranteed?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:02:21 -0500
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Chen, Andrew . wrote:

 >
  question is: does the XML spec, or parser spec guarantee these 2 items
> to be stored/retrieved in order ?
> 

Element order is significant in XML. A conformant XML parser faithfully 
reports all elements in the order they appear. What happens after that 
point is up to the client application.


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