From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T01:41:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25032] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what exactly?

Hello --

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
>
>
> >>Other models could declare the sequence of attributes relevant, etc.
> >>

> > Not in XML, the order of attributes are specifically unordered --
> > there can be no meaning to the order.
>
> Where is that specified in the XML spec?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-starttags

  ...Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag
     or empty-element tag is not significant.


David

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