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   Re: SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

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  • From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
  • To: "'XML Developers' List'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:28:04 -0500 (EST)

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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