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

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> >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".

MathML ( http://www.w3.org/math ) has many elements (such as the <msup>
element) that depend on document order, for example.

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Jimmy Cerra

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