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RE: Syntax Sugar and XML information models
- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- To: xml-dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:05:12 -0500
> other formats or navigation, they expect editing that looks like it is
> acting in-place to actually _be_ in-place, so that there are no other
> changes?
I think this is so. People generally expect editors to preserve almost
all lexical structure... the same goes for databases, but with a little
more flexibility (people can handle attribute reordering, and whitespace
in tag normalization, for example).