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• Subject: Re: Principles of XML design
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:48:41 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <427BB2CE.6010809@w...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <427BB2CE.6010809@w...> you write:

>Whether the order of attributes is significant or not,
>would that not be a question of which schema one applies?

No.  It *could* have been like that, but it isn't.

XML didn't magically appear out of nowhere.  It was designed
as a subset of SGML, and people already knew what SGML meant,
and the order of attributes is not significant.

-- Richard

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