Re: [xml-dev] Attribute Order (Was: Create XML )

 wrote:

> Thinking back to XML 1.0, why is it that attributes are not ordered?

Historically, the mental model of attributes was a set of name/value 
pairs.  Thus the uniqueness and lack of ordering.  It does allow you, 
for example, to represent the attributes of an element with a hash in 
Perl or the equivalent in many other programming environments.

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Cheers, Tim Bray
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