Re: [xml-dev] Principles of XML design

[richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

In article <427BB2CE.6010809@waclawek.net> you write:

>Whether the order of attributes is significant or not,
>would that not be a question of which schema one applies?

No.  It *could* have been like that, but it isn't.

XML didn't magically appear out of nowhere.  It was designed
as a subset of SGML, and people already knew what SGML meant,
and the order of attributes is not significant.

-- Richard