Does order matter?

[apotonick]

In my current implementation

<div>
  <a />
  <b />
</div>

is not equal to

<div>
  <b />
  <a />
</div>

This feels right. What's your opinion?

[alovak]

it should not matter :) structure and content should matter. if we will represent elements in css/xpath selectors than we will not get any difference between this xml's :)

[apotonick]

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleord.html

[apotonick]

I guess we have to support both. Your argumentation is right, often you don't care about order. But what if you want to assert

   ul
    li id="first"
    li id="second"

where the order really affects the presentation?

We need both. Damnit, more work ;-)