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RE: Make implicit structures explicit

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:45:21 +0000

Hi Folks,

Thanks again for the excellent responses.

Recall that I advocated for adding an attribute that indicates the order in which a list of elements are to be evaluated, e.g.,

<aircraft-approach-procedure>
    <transition step="2">Enter glide slope</transition>
    <transition step="3">Correct for wind conditions</transition>
    <transition step="1">Contact control tower</transition>
</aircraft-approach-procedure>

The argument that dissuaded me most powerfully was this simple message from a colleague:

 	What is the benefit of adding @step (a 
	sequence number)? We are not using 
	key punch cards, so we will not drop it.

/Roger

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    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>