Denis McMahon schrieb am 26.06.2015 um 09:44: > xml data is an unordered list, and are trying to assign an order to it. > > If the xml data was ordered, either each tag would be different, or each > tag would have an attribute specifying a sequence number.
XML is not unordered. The document order is well defined and entirely obvious from the data. Whether this order is relevant and has a meaning or not is, however, not part of XML itself but is left to the semantics of the specific document format at hand. Meaning, XML document formats can choose to ignore that order and define it as irrelevant. That doesn't mean it's not there for a given document, but it may mean that a re-transmission of the same document would be allowed to use a different order without changing the information. This property applies to pretty much all structured data formats and not just XML, by the way, also to CSV and other tabular formats. Stefan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
