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If the "document order" is determined by the XML syntax, then I would have expected this to appear in the rec. Where exactly in the XML spec is "document order" defined? <- -----Original Message----- <- From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@n...] <- Sent: 23 January 2001 22:00 <- To: jborden@m... <- Cc: xml-dev@l... <- Subject: Re: XML 1.0 - Element order significance <- <- <- <- <- > Attributes are ordered, its just that the order is not significant. The <- > order of elements in an XML document, as determined by XML <- syntax, is called <- > "document order". One can have other types of orders such as <- alphabetical <- > and numerical, but document order is determined solely by XML syntax. <- <- Although one needs to beware that that definition of "document order", <- whilst being consistent, is not the same as the definition of the order <- known as "document order" in XPath and XSLT, in which the order of <- attribute nodes is explicitly not required to be the same as the order <- of their appearance in the linear syntax in an input file. <- <- Also the above definition doesn't naturally give an order to attributes <- which are defaulted from the DTD. <- <- David <-
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