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Re: XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp

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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 11:31:34 -0500
• In-reply-to: <5.2.0.9.0.20030401112536.03d6c198@n...>

jonathan.robie@d... (Jonathan Robie) writes:
>Is faithful lexical round-tripping an important goal? If so, why?
>
>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?

I don't much care whether you preserve the distinction, or what the
Information Set has to say.  You're quite welcome to your own normalized
(impoverished?) perspective.

I care about my own particular problems, and find it very strange that
so few people have worked at solving them in a generic way.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org

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