• From: "Mike Spreitzer" <spreitze@p...>
• To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>, "David Megginson" <david@m...>, <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:41:59 PST

> Operationally, my experience suggests that in stuff that is
> not metadata, ordering matters.  The converse is true; if ordering matters,
> it's probably not metadata.   There are exceptions but you have to
> work pretty hard. -Tim

What about the list of authors of a scholarly paper?  Isn't that metadata for which order
matters?

Not sweating yet,
Mike


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