i am opening an xml
file in Internet Explorer (9, Windows 7 64-bit).
Internet Explorer likes to display element attributes in random order, e.g.:
rather than in declared order:
<ApplicationVersion major="2" minor="2" release="12" build="687">2.2.12.687</ApplicationVersion>
e.g.:
Or
rather than:
Is there an element, attribute, xml-dtd, xml-schema, Internet Explorer option, Windows option anywhere that will instruct IE to display the XML in declared, rather than random order?
Attributes are unordered as defined by the xml standard.
from the standard:
Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or empty-element tag is not significant.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags
If you require order in attributes you are going to have to change your markup. I suggest something like the following:
<ApplicationVersion>
<attribute name="major">2</attribute>
<attribute name="minor">2</attribute>
<attribute name="build">687</attribute>
</ApplicationVersion>
links:
Order of XML attributes after DOM processing
Can I enforce the order of XML attributes using a schema?
Internet Explorer 11 also has this disappointing failure to xml display as written.
Use Chrome instead to display xml, it also has colour syntax highlighting.