Remember that order is important if the XML is validated against a DTD. For
instance, if your DTD
contains <!ELEMENT user (name, email_address+, title?)> then valid XML could
be
<user>
<name>Craig Noah</name>
<email_address>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email_address>
</user>
but this would be invalid (but well-formed):
<user>
<email_address>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email_address>
<name>Craig Noah</name>
</user>
I hope this helps.
Craig
Jeff Lewis wrote:
> We are having an internal discussion about whether or not to trust the
> ordering of elements within the DOM once an XML document has been parsed.
>
> I am arguing that the DOM should retain the order of elements from the XML
> file, but I have yet to find any requirement, W3C or otherwise, that it do
> so...
>
> Any comments?
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