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• Subject: RE: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" myth come from?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:51:58 -0000
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>  > lossless roundtripping. 

> > This doesn't work today. 

Of course it doesn't. The biggest single failing in the XML spec, sadly
unremedied in subsequent versions, is that it doesn't define the information
content of an XML document. Without that "lossless" cannot be defined, and
it can't be defined, then it can't be achieved.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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