[Python-Dev] Is XML serialization output guaranteed to be bytewise identical forever?

[Steve Holden]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:33 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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> Most users and applications should /never/ care about the order of XML
> attributes.
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> Regards
>
> Antoine
>

Especially as the standards specifically say that ordering has no semantic
impact.

Byte-by-byte comparison of XML is almost always inappropriate.
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