Re: SAX LexicalHandler::comment issue

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 05 Jul 2001 11:50:10 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> Unfortunately the defaults are to create all the noise nodes:  comments,
> cdata, ignorable whitespace, and entity refs all have annoying default
> settings (including those node types, rather than discard them).

Noise to who?  Infoset buffs?

Writing a SAX filter is driving me to once again question the wisdom of
the existence of attributes, but I can't say I'd seriously propose that
they be discarded by default.

And the stuff you call noise would actually be easier for me to deal
with in this context.