RE: Configuration file format

Hi

I believe that using DOM you can mandate to follow the order in a given way but
I'm not sure about SAX.

However one important thing is that IMHO is more readable to have the order set
explicitely

My 2 cents

Quoting Brian Scully <[email protected]>:

> I'm with Carlos on this one.  In the projects I have
> been on, we have always specified an order attribute
> when needed.  This is done explicitly to protect from
> a parser implementation that may not go in document
> order.  Maybe there's an optimization that would cause
> a parser to do that - I haven't thought about it
> enough.  Is there a specification somewhere that says
> that the parser will always preserve document element
> order?
> 
> Brian
> 
> --- "Alan D. Cabrera" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The parser should go in document order.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bordet, Simone [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 4:28 AM
> > To: Carlos Quiroz; MX4J-Dev (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: [Mx4j-devel] Configuration file format
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > I did a similar work a while a go for our internal
> > loader and 
> > > one of the things
> > > I was wondering then was how to specify the order
> > of 
> > > creating, loading,
> > > unloading and invoking operations
> > > 
> > > Will the order be set by the positions of the 
> > > create/register/unregister nodes
> > > in the file? Isn't that a bit risky since the
> > parser may 
> > > change the order?
> > 
> > Really ?
> > I always thought the parser goes in the document
> > order, are you sure the
> > parser can mix it ?
> > 
> > Simon
> 
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