Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - The order of attributes [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] The order of attributesTo: Xasima Xirohata <xasima@-----.---> Date: 1/6/2006 4:56:00 PM Quoting Xasima Xirohata <xasima@g...>: > Hi, everybody. > > I wonder why the order of attributes doesn't matter in the XML 1.0. spec. This characteristic of attributes is inherited by necessity from SGML: XML 1.0 was derived (if that is the right word) from SGML, such that XML 1.0 data could be correctly processed by SGML processors. So to find a written reason for this language design choice, you'd need to look back to the roots of SGML. Ian | ||||||
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