Re: Database schema

Hi Michael,

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> writes:

> There's nothing in the XSD for example that says whether the order
> of elements is significant;

There are ways to specify in XML Schema whether elements should appear
in a particular order or not (xs:sequence vs xs:all). What you are
probably saying here is that if the schema says that elements can appear
in any order, it does not mean that the actual order of elements as they
appear in XML documents is insignificant to the application logic.

Boris

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