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• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:29:57 -0400
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At 3:10 AM -0400 6/22/03, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:

Thinking back to XML 1.0, why is it that attributes are not ordered?


Because they aren't ordered in SGML. Given that attributes must have 
unique names, I really can't see the use case for attribute ordering.
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   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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