[jdom-interest] Attributes as HashMap?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:31 AM -0700 10/6/00, Alex Chaffee wrote:

>
>Not to beat the steamy, bloated remains of a large mammal, but
>attribute order is actually required for some uses, e.g. comparison
>between two documents by a program that doesn't understand XML, like
>diff.  I think it was Brad Morgan who wanted to use what eventually
>became trimText for this very purpose.
>

That's what canonical XML is for. You simply can't compare two XML 
documents with a program that doesn't understand XML. You can compare 
two XML files, but that's not quite the same thing.
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