Traversal field in XML Source of LiveCycle Designer files

Can someone explain to me how the Traversal field
in XML Source relates to the tab order for an entire PDF form? Like in my form i have the following, but both have 70 in them, but different names (field vs draw), but i dont know how that relates to the overall tab order of the entire PDF.
<traversal><
traverse ref="#field[70]"/></
traversal>
<traversal><
traverse ref="#draw[70]"/></
traversal>

It tells where to tab to next - those are attached to a field and point to the next field to go to.
#field[70] and #draw[70] are field names in your form. I think those tags only show up if you start using custom tabbing order.
Something looks odd though - did you name your fields with "#" in front? I might be wrong but that may cause problems for some things (not tabbing per se) - someone else here can hopefully correct me or not.

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