[Zope-dev] Re: [ZPT] Order of attribute execution Feature Request

[Steve Alexander]

Tim Hoffman wrote:
> 
> In addition event handlers in html ie onClick onBlur etc
> are all order independant.
> 
> now adding tal: attributes that where order dependant would seem
> to fly in the face of that convention. (Admittedely there are probably
> no strange dependancies that could be introduced with different orders 
> of border, src etc)

Indeed. It isn't just a convention. The order of attributes within an 
XML or SGML tag is explicitly defined not to matter.

Two important properties of attributes within a tag are that they are 
unordered, and they are unique.


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Steve Alexander