The order of the atributes can help developers

2002-09-03 Thread Antonio Gallardo Rivera

Hi,

I am using jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) like the source editor. jEdit has a 
plug-in called XML-Tree. In this plug-in we can see the tree XML of tags and 
There we can see the attributes of a given tag.

I think it can help better if the attribute name of the components will be 
the first declared attribute in the sitemap. Of course if it exists ;). 

This is just a question of order. I think it can help to make less errors. 
Maybe will be fine to write a recomendation of how to write Cocoon files.

Regards,

Antonio Gallardo

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Re: The order of the atributes can help developers

2002-09-03 Thread Steven Noels

Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote:

 I think it can help better if the attribute name of the components will be 
 the first declared attribute in the sitemap. Of course if it exists ;). 

Attribute order is irrelevant in an XML document - it is up to the 
application if the order is preserved. IIRC, Xalan sorts attributes 
alfabetically.

For general sitemap editing woes, maybe have a look at 
http://pollo.sf.net/ - a general-purpose XML editor that comes with a 
configuration for Cocoon sitemap editing and some entry helpers for that 
purpose.

Regards,

/Steven
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Re: The order of the atributes can help developers

2002-09-03 Thread Antonio Gallardo Rivera



El Martes, 03 de Septiembre de 2002 13:30, Steven Noels escribió:
 Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote:
  I think it can help better if the attribute name of the components will
  be the first declared attribute in the sitemap. Of course if it exists
  ;).

 Attribute order is irrelevant in an XML document - it is up to the
 application if the order is preserved. IIRC, Xalan sorts attributes
 alfabetically.

I know that. But for the programmers can be better. I thinked in a 
recommendation or etiquette nothing more. Not to rewrite the SAX 
specification. ;)


 For general sitemap editing woes, maybe have a look at
 http://pollo.sf.net/ - a general-purpose XML editor that comes with a
 configuration for Cocoon sitemap editing and some entry helpers for that
 purpose.

I know pollo too. But I feel it still in a beta release. I am currently coding 
with jEdit and the XML Tree Plug-in.


 Regards,

 /Steven

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Re: The order of the atributes can help developers

2002-09-03 Thread Steven Noels

Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote:

 El Martes, 03 de Septiembre de 2002 13:30, Steven Noels escribió:

Attribute order is irrelevant in an XML document - it is up to the
application if the order is preserved. IIRC, Xalan sorts attributes
alfabetically.
 
 
 I know that. But for the programmers can be better. I thinked in a 
 recommendation or etiquette nothing more. Not to rewrite the SAX 
 specification. ;)

The wonderful world of interpreting W3C specifications :-)

In what way do you see preserving or fixing attribute order being 
'better', except for presentation purposes?

For general sitemap editing woes, maybe have a look at
http://pollo.sf.net/ - a general-purpose XML editor that comes with a
configuration for Cocoon sitemap editing and some entry helpers for that
purpose.
 
 
 I know pollo too. But I feel it still in a beta release. I am currently coding 
 with jEdit and the XML Tree Plug-in.

In a Pollo display specification, you can specify the attributes that 
should be shown on the element and the order in which they should 
appear. But that's view-only, I believe, since the attribute editing 
pane operates on the DOM, where the order is so-called irrelevant and 
thus Pollo shows them ... alfabetically. Ha! :-)

Pollo is by no means beta-quality, it's just sub-ambitious with regards 
to its version numbering scheme ;-)

/Steven
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