Re: [xml-dev] Order of attributes

[Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@yahoo.com>]

I agree with Mr. Tobin .. I would imagine elements as
objects, and attributes as the object's properties. I
think(IHMO) the object's properties are not supposed
to be ordered (so should attributes).. 

Regards,
Mukul

--- Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> No, because that's not what attributes are for.  The
> attributes of an
> element are uniquely identified by their names, and
> the children are
> not.  The semantics of an attribute depends on its
> name, not its
> position within the start tag.
> 
> You can write down a matrix of the properties of
> attributes and child
> elements: whether they are named, whether their
> order is significant,
> whether they have recursive structure (it helps to
> have several dimensions
> to write in :-).  The three I listed give you 8
> possible combinations;
> XML (and SGML) only provide two of them, but they
> are two that cover
> a lot of useful cases.
> 
> >More practically, if a parser guarantees reporting
> attributes to the
> >application in their order of occurrence in a
> document, would this be a
> >reason to declare the parser incompliant with XML
> 1.0?
> 
> No, of course not.  An XML editor is the obvious
> example of an
> application that can benefit from that information. 
> But an XML editor
> does not use an XML document for its semantics.
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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