June 15, 2008
9:40 p.m.
Armin Ronacher wrote:
- in XML/HTML processing it's often desired to keep the attributes of an tag ordered during processing. So that input ordering is the same as the output ordering.
- [...] XML libraries such as etree could add support for it when creating elements or return attribute dicts.
I hope that what you call "etree" here (I assume you mean ElementTree) would stay compatible to lxml.etree in that case. Meaning: adding or replacing an attribute removes a possibly existing entry and appends the new value at the end. Stefan