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Quoting Ian Graham: >Quoting Xasima Xirohata <xasima@g...>: >> I wonder why the order of attributes doesn't matter in the XML 1.0. spec. >This characteristic of attributes is inherited by necessity from SGML: >XML 1.0 was derived (if that >is the right word) from SGML, such that >XML 1.0 data could be correctly processed by SGML processors. >So to find a written reason for this language design choice, you'd need to >look back to the roots of SGML. I think the general idea is that if the ordering of pieces of information associated with an element matter to an application, then they should be declared in the content model as child elements, where you have various regular-expression-like options for describing ordering options. Bob www.snee.com/bob
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