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Re: SAX LexicalHandler::comment issue

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:25:56 -0400

On 05 Jul 2001 11:50:10 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> Unfortunately the defaults are to create all the noise nodes:  comments,
> cdata, ignorable whitespace, and entity refs all have annoying default
> settings (including those node types, rather than discard them).

Noise to who?  Infoset buffs?

Writing a SAX filter is driving me to once again question the wisdom of
the existence of attributes, but I can't say I'd seriously propose that
they be discarded by default.

And the stuff you call noise would actually be easier for me to deal
with in this context.

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