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To: AndrewWatt2000@aol.com, simonstl@simonstl.com
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Attribute Order (Was: Create XML )
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:29:57 -0400
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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At 3:10 AM -0400 6/22/03, AndrewWatt2000@aol.com wrote:

Thinking back to XML 1.0, why is it that attributes are not ordered?


Because they aren't ordered in SGML. Given that attributes must have 
unique names, I really can't see the use case for attribute ordering.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@metalab.unc.edu
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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