xml-dev - Re: SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Bill la Forge writes:

 > Again, is anyone aware of why CDATA is preserved by the DOM?
 > What was the reasoning behind this decision? Other things, like
 > whitespace within an element tag or even attribute order, are not preserved.
 > Why then was CDATA? 

I would guess that the DOM WG believed that users of XML editors and
repositories would want to see CDATA section boundaries and comments
survive a round trip in and out of the tools.  Personally, I am
extremely skeptical, but I have heard this argument many times from
the employees of the vendors themselves.


All the best,


David

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