Jonathan Goble jcgoble3 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 13:26:00 EDT 2019

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 1:05 PM Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:33 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> wrote:
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>> [...]
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>> Most users and applications should /never/ care about the order of XML
>> attributes.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>
> Especially as the standards specifically say that ordering has no semantic
> impact.
>

When you have a lot of attributes, though, sometimes having them in a
particular defined order can make it easier to reason about and make sense
of the code when manually reviewing it.

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