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RE: RFC for XML Object Parsing

  • From: Brian Aberle <xmlboss@live.com>
  • To: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:26:06 -0600

RE:  RFC for XML Object Parsing
Simon 
 
This was the only email I didn't reply to today - for fear of an off-topic argument.  First of all I sincerely hope that this is not a 2 sided argument, its a discussion.  I thought that ALL SAX parsers preserved order, I learned today that some do not.  If the world was to increment the XML spec it would seem logical that attribute order would be preserved - but this must be a topic that has been exhausted already.  One SAX implementation can preserve order and another cannot - this is the state of the world at the moment.  I don't want to start an argument about a non-essential issue or carry this thread off-topic but I am curious myself if there was a reason for this, if it was an oversight, or if it was done to simplify the implementation.  Perhaps someone out there has the answer for the reasoning behind XML's attribute order discarding.
 
Brian
 
 
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:19:57 -0400
> From: simonstl@simonstl.com
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re: RFC for XML Object Parsing
>
> On 03/24/2014 03:30 PM, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:25:01 -0600, Brian Aberle wrote:
> >> Attribute order matters,oid must be first however, OID IS NEVER REQUIRED.
> >
> > You do realize that this means "this is not XML"?
> >
> > You can't even guarantee attribute order in SAX. Suggesting that
> > attribute order matters is pretty baffling, altogether.
>
> I can't help feeling that I'm taking the wrong side of the argument, but
> I've always thought that discarding attribute order was one of the
> unforced errors of the XML spec!
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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