From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T07:23:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25091] Re: XML support in the standard lib; what exactly?

Hello --

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 kentda@stud.ntnu.no wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:
> > Bob Hutchison wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> I tried to find that, but alas I found nothing more explicit than this:
>  "Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag
>   or empty-element tag is not significant."

That's pretty explicit, isn't it? :-)


David

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