clarification needed: order of children of atom:entry

[Eric Scheid]

Section 4.1.2 of the Atom Syndication Format spec states this:

   "This specification assigns no significance to the order of
    appearance of the child elements of atom:entry."

Is this referring to the immediate children only of atom:entry, or of all
descendents?

I'm hoping for the former, otherwise this:

<entry>
    <content type="xhtml">
        <div xmlns="..">
            <h1>heading</h1>
            <p>para.1</p>
            <p>para.2</p>
        </div>
    </content>
    ...
</entry>

... could become the following when passing some intermediary:

<entry>
    <content type="xhtml">
        <div xmlns="..">
            <p>para.2</p>
            <p>para.1</p>
            <h1>heading</h1>
        </div>
    </content>
    ...
</entry>

e.