Serialization of XDM

[David A. Lee]

Excellent points.
IMHO, asking for 100% lossless is asking too much.
So if its not 100% where's the line ? A lossy implementation would still 
be very useful
If one were to start writing down intent, use cases and a proposal, what 
would be a good forum for this ?
A web page ? A document via email via these user groups ?
Suggestions welcome.

-David




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Michael Kay wrote:
>>> is it important that
>>>     $a[1]/foo/bar  is  $a[2]
>>>       
>
> Someone needs to sit down and write down the requirements and use cases.
>
> One requirement that someone suggested was of the nature of "lossless
> round-tripping". That would imply that given a sequence (N, M), not only
> does (N is M) retain its value after serialization and parsing, but so does
> (N/.. is M/..): which means you can't just serialize the subtrees rooted at
> the nodes in the sequence, you have to serialize the entire document in
> which these nodes are contained.
>
> Perhaps this explains why there is currently no standard in this area.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
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