• To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>,"'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"'Miles Sabin'" <miles@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:58:45 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B7CA4C@R...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> 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. 

I agree. It's very irritating to have hex character references replaced
by decimal ones if the codes that you have memorized are the hex ones.

Michael Kay

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