on 5/14/02 6:11 PM, Don Hopkins at xardox@mindspring.com scrivened:
However, the standard, agreed-upon definition of XML EXPLICITLY defines attributes as being unordered, so any so-called "templating" language that depends on the order of attributes is BY DEFINITION not standard XML, and should not be advertised as such.
There are different concepts of ordering: - sequential down the page - hierarchical - precedence I think we're talking about sequential - since XML does have a hierarchical ordering, and doesn't seem to tread into precedence. TAL defines precedence (define before condition, etc.) The idea for implementing 'else' (though I now think it's unneccessary) used the hierarchical ordering of XML to get the ordering it needed. But I also submit that ZPT can't be simply 'filling the slots' since it has a condition statement.