[mrweasel]

True, but in my mind picking ", " indicate to me that they don't care or don't know what they're doing. I often run into something similar with XML. I've had more than one partner call or write me saying that the elements in a file are not in the right order. Every single time they've admitted to not actually using an XML parser.

Don't do things that screw up the standard tools other developers depend on.

[fhars]

Stuff not being in the correct order is a perfectly fine technical reason to reject an XML file if you have a DTD based workflow. It is actually quite difficult to specify that the order of elements is irrelevant (it goes with n!, so allowing six elements exactly once, but in arbitrary order in the contents of So in that case, you might have been the developer that screwed up the standard tools other developers dependan element makes that part of the DTD 720 times longer than specifying a fixed order).

So they could have easily played the ball back into your field if they had know what they did...

[mrweasel]

That is much more complex than the issues we've seen. My issue is with say a <person> with the subelements <name> and <email>, it should never make any difference if email or name is first or second.