On July 7 at approximately 10am EST Shopify introduced a regression in the Orders XML API.
On September 12, 2012 at 1:14PM EST this issue was fixed. Details follow:
In /orders.xml in note attributes, we originally had described the nodes like this:
<note-attributes><note-attribute>
They changed to this:
<note-attributes><note_attribute>
The fix has changed them back.