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Re: [xml-dev] Is order in XML guaranteed?

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To: "Chen, Andrew ." <ChenA@westinghouse.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Is order in XML guaranteed?
From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:02:21 -0500
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Chen, Andrew . wrote:

 >
  question is: does the XML spec, or parser spec guarantee these 2 items
> to be stored/retrieved in order ?
> 

Element order is significant in XML. A conformant XML parser faithfully 
reports all elements in the order they appear. What happens after that 
point is up to the client application.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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