& XSLT On 1/6/06, Xasima Xirohata <xasima@[...].com>  wrote:
>  Hi, everybody.
> 
>  I wonder why the order of attributes doesn't matter in the XML 1.0.  spec.

No guess on that at the moment, but one quick comment.

<snip/> 
> 
>  For example, we have the xml document that express what font should be used
>  for the text. If some font isn't found at the target system, the next font
>  in the sequence should be used.
> 
>  Xml:
>  <text>
>    <font_sequence>
>      <font>Antique Olive</font>
>      <font>Franklin Gothic Book</font>
>      <font>Arial</font>
>    </font_sequence >
>    <content>
>       Once upon a time ...
>    </content>
>  </text>
> 
> 
>  It is endurable to rewrite it like this
>  <text font1="Antique Olive"
>        font2="Franklin Gothic Book"
>        font3="Arial">
>       Once upon a time ...
>  </text>
> 

Given that "font1", "font2" etc aren't necessarily meaningful it might
be just as simple to handle:

<text fonts="Antique Olive, Franklin Gothic Book, Arial"/> 

which gives you order at the expense of some string parsing (which is
easy enough in most langauges)...

--
Peter Hunsberger

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