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Jonathan Robie wrote, > Is faithful lexical round-tripping an important goal? If so, why? It's important to any application which is sensitive to the lexical characteristics of XML documents. They exist. If they're not yours then you don't have to care. > If the Information Set says that there is no distinction between <foo > "a"/> and <foo 'a'/>, why should I work hard to preserve the > distinction? If all you care about is the Infoset then you don't. But the XML REC does differentiate between the two at the lexical level, and some applications care about that. That said, the API I mentioned predated both SAX2's LexicalHandler (and the Infoset REC), and the primary motivation was preserving comments rather than quotemarks ... in particular I wanted to be able to round-trip without dropping comments with, eg., embedded copyright information. Cheers, Miles
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