There is one thing in the DOM (level 1.0) spec which is relevant,
the description of the method getElementsByTagName for the Element class:
getElementsByTagName
Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given tag name
in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder
traversal of the Document tree.
Parameters
tagname
The name of the tag to match on. The special
value "*" matches all tags.
Return Value
A new NodeList object containing all the matched
Elements.
I can't find anything anywhere which says that "Document tree" means
what it seems like it should mean, though.
Joanne
> Jeff Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/08/2000 12:55:40 PM
>
> 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...
