[Python-Dev] Is XML serialization output guaranteed to be bytewise identical forever? (original) (raw)
Jonathan Goble jcgoble3 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 13:26:00 EDT 2019
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 1:05 PM Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:33 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
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Most users and applications should /never/ care about the order of XML attributes. Regards Antoine Especially as the standards specifically say that ordering has no semantic impact.
When you have a lot of attributes, though, sometimes having them in a particular defined order can make it easier to reason about and make sense of the code when manually reviewing it.
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