xml-dev - RE: Order in an XML document

[Leigh Dodds <ldodds@ingenta.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@xml.org [mailto:owner-xml-dev@xml.org]On Behalf Of
> Michel Rodriguez
> Sent: 24 May 2000 14:52
> To: xml-dev@xml.org
> Subject: Order in an XML document
> 

[ question regarding document order ]

>                       option 1  option 2
> 
> [1] A and B are not in  undef    undef
>     the same document  
> [2] A is before B       -1        -1
> [3] B is before A        1         1
> [4] A and B are equal    0         0
> [5] A is within B        0         1 (B starts before A)
> [6] B is within A        0        -1 (A starts before B)

Could you provide some additional information on how you're 
distinguishing between the different categories?

E.g.:

Is [5] := <A><B/></A> ?
Is [2] := <A/><B/>    ?

I might be sounding pedantic, but in the first case the 
A element is encountered 'before' the B element in a traversal 
of the tree structure of the document. 

Therefore the distinguishing feature between [5] and [2] is that 
an A element is encountered first, and the first B element 
is not within the content of that A element?

Note I'm not making any assumption about what those two elements 
are.

L.

-- 
Leigh Dodds, Systems Architect       | "Pluralitas non est ponenda
http://weblogs.userland.com/eclectic |    sine necessitates"
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