[ebxml-cppa] Attributes before Elements

[Tony Weida <rweida@hotmail.com>]

Peter Ogden raised the issue of presenting an element's attributes before its subelements and we agreed to that ordering during a recent call.  I later realized that there are two aspects of attribute/element ordering:

 

1. Subsequent sections on attributes precede subsequent sections on sub-elements.

2. Text within the section describing a particular element discusses its attributes before its elements.

 

I believe that version 1.07 more or less always observes the first constraint, but not always the second.  Was the second constraint also intended, or just the first?  Sometimes, for example,  the text flows most easily by enumerating the attributes at the end of the section for a given element (after mentioning its subelements) and then proceeding directly to the subsections that describe those attributes.  Okay?

 

Tony