This depends on the declared datatype for the attribute, shirley?

If it's #NMTOKENS for example, my belief (and Jean-Daniel agrees) is that
rend="A B" is the same as rend = "B        A". Or at least that no application
is *required* to preserve the order, just as every application is entitled to
normalize the whitespace.

Neither of us has checked the specs of course...

If it's a declared datatype is cdata of course, that's different.



In message <4A0D1E30.2000609@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Sebastian Rahtz
<sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> wait a minute:
> 
> >> - xml doesnt constrain or preserve the order of the values so you shouldnt
> >> depend on it
> 
> this isn't true, is it?
> 
> If I say rend="a b", XML per see will always treat
> "a b" as an atomic string, and can never turn it
> into "b a". any more than it would ever turn
> <name value="Lou Burnard"/> into <name value="Burnard Lou"/>
> 
> the multi-valuedness is known to the schema, for checking,
> of course.
> 
> whether the PSVI respects the order I am not sure.
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