On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 08:36 -0500, Tong Li wrote: > I do not think DMTF cimi spec strongly suggested the sequence of the > elements. At least it did not say in the spec. although most of the samples > do show a patten of the elements.
That's one of the implicit rules of XML: order matters, DOM's are ordered trees etc. > When I used XmlSimple (), it actually > keeps the right order with the xml it reads in. The difficulty is when you > have a hash (produced by XmlSimple from an XML doc), you most likely will > add or remove things off of the hash, that is where it sequence really get > messed up, I do not consider it has anything to do with the XmlSimple, it > is just when hash get serialized to xml or json, probably the serializer > does not know how to deal with the sequence since the hash certainly does > not have the sequence information of its members. Either way, we'll have to write our own XML serialization to make sure element order is correct; the schema that is declared with the DSL has the element order (the order in which attributes are declared) David
