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Joe English wrote: > The solution outlined above *does* work in the real world. > > Nobody expects an XML database (or any XML processor, for that matter) > to preserve things like attribute order, whitespace in tags, > CDATA section boundaries, or [comment] information items. > It's a bad idea to design vocabularies where these things are > significant, and almost nobody does. > > Most XML applications don't care about the [in-scope namespaces] > property either, and can be safely stored in a database that fails > to preserve it. I mostly agree. But if you store and retrieve an XSLT styleheet or W3C XML Schema, wouln't you gripe if the namespaces needed to interpret them were lost? Jonathan
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