Agreed, fundamentally it is bad practice,
but I would take the bad practice over what we have now,
which is essentially random order.

Scott

Fredrik Lindgren wrote:

> Attributes are specified as a set rather than a list in the XML
> Recommendation and the order can not be governed by a DTD. It is
> generally bad practice to base any XML processing on attribute order
> since XML parsers are not required to preserve the order. As for
> readability of the xml file there could of course be a point in keeping
> a predictable order. Sorting on attribute name could be an option.
>
> /Fredrik Lindgren
>
> Scott Hrehirchuk wrote:
> > This may have been mentioned before, but...
> >
> > When the xml code completion fills in the required attributes, they seem
> > to be in random order.
> > Is there any chance the order could be determined by the DTD?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
> >

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