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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Tim Bray wrote:
> At 08:26 AM 30/03/01 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >Is there some kind of processing advantage for _parsers_ (not applications)
> >to report attribute values in any sequence other than their original sequence?
>
> Only instance I can think of is in perl, in one of the interfaces
> through XML::Parser to expat, you can arrange to get a callback
> for each start tag where the attributes are passed in as a hash
> keyed by name in the obvious way. So the order isn't changed,
> but it's effectively lost. -Tim
Not true actually, XML::Parser passes them through as an array, it's just
that assigning that to a hash loses the order. Try:
sub parse_start {
my ($e, $tag, @attribs) = @_;
print "Tag: $tag\n";
while (@attribs) {
my ($key, $value) = splice(@attribs, 0, 2);
print "Attrib: $key=$value\n";
}
}
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