RE: [xsl] attribute order

Subject: RE: [xsl] attribute order
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:52:03 -0000
> > (There is universal consensus that in XML, element order is
> important but
> > attribute order isn't. There is nothing explicit in the XML
> specification
> > that says this, but it's made clear in the definition of
> the InfoSet.)
>
> Actually a sentence making this explicit was added in XML 2e:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006-review.html#sec-starttags
>
> ... Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or
> empty-element tag is not significant.
>

But did they get round to saying that the order of elements *WAS*
significant?

Mike K


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