>> Internally attributes are stored in (small and efficient) hash table. >> Therefore, once an XML file has been loaded in XMLmind XML Editor, the >> ordering information of attributes is totally lost.
> Additionally, this is in line with the XML spec: > > Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or > empty-element tag is not significant. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags Hi Keith/Hussein, Thanks; it doesn't bother me, but I've used the tool to edit non-DocBook XML files by developers who didn't like the fact elements were reordered as (a) they often had elements with a large number of attributes including a "name" attribute, which they usually had as the first one to make visually scanning for particular elements easy, and (b) when checking the files into revision control, it's hard to spot the exact changes made to the file. Cheers, -pm http://oceanclub.blogspot.com "We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she's 'damaged goods'... When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom, 'do you still love me?', you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even." - Joey Comeau, on increased realism in gaming.
