Order in attribute-list?

From: Karsten Tolle <tolle@csi.forth.gr> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:05:23 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <9907141405.AA00373@leda.csi.forth.gr> To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org Cc: tolle@csi.forth.gr · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Friday, 21 September 2012 14:16:27 GMT

In the RDF M&S is the syntax of RDF given in BNF. So, if we have for 
example: 
  [6.3] description    ::= '<rdf:Description' idAboutAttr? bagIdAttr? propAttr* '/>'

This would mean that the idAboutAttr should stand befor the bagIdAttr, like

<rdf:Description about="..." bagID="..." ...

and not

<rdf:Descriptin bagID="..." about="..." ...

For example SiRPAC does not care about the order. 

So, is it a syntactic feature inherited from XML not to care about the 
order of attributes?

Karsten Tolle 

tolle@csi.forth.gr