On 3/21/2019 1:23 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 17:05, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
Especially as the standards specifically say that ordering has no semantic
impact.
Byte-by-byte comparison of XML is almost always inappropriate.
Conversely, if ordering has no semantic impact, there's no real
justification for asking for the current order to be changed.
In practice, allowing the user to control the ordering (by preserving
input order) gives users a way of handling (according to the standard)
broken consumers who ascribe semantic meaning to the attribute order.
Or, as Jonathan Goble said elsewhere, use an order that makes whatever
sense to the author and other readers. The order of positional
parameter names in a function definition has no semantic meaning to
python, but it would be terrible to make them be sorted.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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