[XML-SIG] Dissabling DTDs or arranging the Attribute order

[Reza Naima]

Alas, I don't want to touch the DTD as it will break the 3rd party
software.  

-r

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:27:01PM -0500, Thomas B. Passin sent me this...
> Reza Naima wrote -
> 
> > ...
> > The other work-around is to get rid of attribute2 and attribute3.  This
> > workes, but it seems as PyXML looks at the DTD spec, notices that they
> > are missing, and fills them in.  So, I'de like to find a way to get
> > PyXML to ignore the DTD.
> >
> 
> If you can change the DTD, you could make these attributes #IMPLIED without
> any default values.  Then the parser shouldn;t be adding them.
> 
> Martin's solution of sorting would only work if your "broken" 3rd party
> software want to see alphabetical order.  Fundamentally, xml attributes are
> never guaranteed to be in any particular order - basically, they are a set,
> not a list.