• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Attribute Order (Was: Create XML )
• From: "Amelia A. Lewis" <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:21:10 -0400
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:36:29 -0400
Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> wrote:
> What would preserving attribute order let you do that you can't do 
> now? What concrete use cases can you present for this functionality?

Simplify canonicalization.  This leads to a sheaf of possible use cases.

Amy!
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