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• Subject: RE: XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:50:22 -0500
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B7CA4C@R...>

dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>In my experience faithful lexical round tripping is mainly important to 
>applications that act as editors. 

Editors taken broadly, perhaps - I'm not writing this with a GUI in
mind.

>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. 

Once you've started, you might as well go all the way, sure.

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Simon St.Laurent
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