At 16:00 06/12/11, Doug Ewell wrote: >If the Registry were converted to XML and accessed using normal XML methods, the multiple Description fields really would be in non-determininstic order, unless one was given a different name (or unless "rank" values were assigned). No. The order of elements in XML is significant. The only place where order isn't significant is attributes, but you can't put multiple descriptions into attributes without giving them different names, so you again break the symmetry. Applications can declare that for some cases, element order isn't significant, but generic XML tools keep element order. Otherwise, we'd all read Web pages in random sequence :-). Of course, if the tool that converts from record-jar to XML uses some random numbers, then the XML file will contain the descriptions in random order, but once they are in XML, they are fixed. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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