XML Document Generation

Aamir

Dear All

I have a requirement to generate xml document from database as per given XML schema definition. I did this by using oracle report developer to generate out put as xml document.

My question is that is there any sequence important for attribute for example

XSD has attribute
------------------------
Name
Address
phoneno
------------------------

But When i generate xml document using oracle report developer it changes the sequence of attributes like this

-------------------------
phoneno
address
name
------------------------


please guide that this wrong sequence of attribute have any problem when validating xml document with xsd.

Regards

odie_63

XML 1.0 specifications :

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags

The Name in the start- and end-tags gives the element's type. [Definition: The Name-AttValue pairs are referred to as the attribute specifications of the element], [Definition: with the Name in each pair referred to as the attribute name ] and [Definition: the content of the AttValue (the text between the ' or " delimiters) as the attribute value.] Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or empty-element tag is not significant.

odie_63

please guide that this wrong sequence of attribute have any problem when validating xml document with xsd.

No, the order of attributes is not significant. There won't be any problem when validating.

Aamir

Thanks dear

Can you please provide any reference for no metter on order of attributes in xml documents

Regards

Aamir

odie_63

XML 1.0 specifications :

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags

The Name in the start- and end-tags gives the element's type. [Definition: The Name-AttValue pairs are referred to as the attribute specifications of the element], [Definition: with the Name in each pair referred to as the attribute name ] and [Definition: the content of the AttValue (the text between the ' or " delimiters) as the attribute value.] Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or empty-element tag is not significant.

Aamir

thank you very much dear for your effort

Regards

Aamir