• From: Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@g...>
• To: ",xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:20:30 +0800

Eric van der Vlist wrote:

> 1) Should we always pay attention to the relative order of the elements
> within XML documents ?

By default yes.
  
> 3) What do schema based validation tools have to say about this ?

I have heard of an effort to define a simple element that would sit
in XML Schemas appinfo element, and which would let you specify whether
order was significant.  

> 4) Can we find a solution amongst rules based validation tools ?
 
See 1

For schematron, repetitive grouping issues within elements are
not particularly convenient, but the fact that we think of documents
like that is a throwback to grammars.  Most kinds of order and openness
can be reprented.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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