not the desired result, I'm sure

FACT, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, have produced a short (90 sec?) piece that gets shown at theatres here and has started appearing on my rented DVDs as well; lots of edgy camerawork and what not depicting physical theft with the captions (in an equally edgy font) "You wouldn't steal a handbag", "You wouldn't steal a car", "You wouldn't steal a movie". Which then cuts back to some girl sitting in her room with a download bar running, more captions about how movie piracy is theft, then she hits the cancel button and leaves the room.

The thing is, it's also got some really edgy music. Some damned good edgy music. Ideally, someone would rip this music and distribute it on the intarweb. And, you know, do all that edgy "mashup" stuff that's hip with the cool kids nowadays.

XML question

So, to get the basics out of the way, I hate XML. I'm forced to deal with it for a hack I'm fiddling with right now, though. And having poked this with a stick for the last week, I've finally found the problem: I am sending data formatted as <foo><bar 1><bar 2><bar 3></foo> and the client wants <foo><bar 2><bar 1><bar 3></foo>, i.e. the order of the contained elements turns out to be important. Now, as far as I can tell, the contained elements are not order-dependant; they're essentially attributes of the container (foo) which can logically interact with each other unambiguously regardless of order (one's a default setting, one's a current setting, and one's a timeout value). While I'm happy to cast asparagus on Microsoft for this (for theirs is the client) I'm curious as to whether this is common behaviour or just short-sighted programming?