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Title: > -----Original Message----- Thanks for looking this up! But, uhhh, "Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or empty-element tag is not significant" is pretty explicit. I think the InfoSet has gone a bit far in implying the insignificance of various things that databases and editors need to preserve, but I wouldn't want to have anything to do with an effort to imply significance to things that XML 1.0 defines as NOT significant. I just remembered one other thing that the InfoSet doesn't model that has generated some discussion about round-trippability --- the two legal XML syntaxes for empty elements. Does anyone care about round-tripping the specific syntax used in some instance, e.g. <empty></empty> vs <empty/> ? There was some discussion on SML-DEV once about using it to encode the distinction between an element with the value [empty string] vs an element with the value "null" ... but the fact that the distinction wouldn't necessarily survive a round-trip with an InfoSet-compliant tool put that idea to rest.
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