• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"Miles Sabin" <miles@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:39:57 -0500
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B7CA4C@R...>

At 08:35 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>In my experience faithful lexical round tripping is mainly important to 
>applications that act as editors. In such cases, the people requesting 
>such features in an API want even more requirements than XML 1.0 deems 
>necessary such as preserving attribute order and all whitespace.

Yes, it's clearly helpful for that. I also know from XML databases I've 
worked with that people really do get upset if you change namespace 
prefixes when they import a document and export it again - but most editors 
and databases do seem to sacrifice some faithfulness in their lexical 
round-tripping.

And they seem to get away with it ;->

It depends, of course, on just exactly what they are changing...

Jonathan 

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