Re: [xml-dev] relying on ordering of sibling XML elements

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

In article <20020803160108.92831.qmail@web21412.mail.yahoo.com> you write:
>
>Question - does "proper" XML document design permit
>deriving a semantic meaning from the ordering of XML
>sibling elements?

Yes.

Observe that the Infoset (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/) describes
the [children] property of an element as "an ordered list of child
information items, in document order".  Contrast this with [attributes]
which is "an unordered set of attribute information items".

-- Richard