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   Re: [xml-dev] XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp

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jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com (Jonathan Robie) writes:
>Is faithful lexical round-tripping an important goal? If so, why?
>
>If the Information Set says that there is no distinction between <foo
>"a"/> and <foo 'a'/>, why should I work hard to preserve the
>distinction?

I don't much care whether you preserve the distinction, or what the
Information Set has to say.  You're quite welcome to your own normalized
(impoverished?) perspective.

I care about my own particular problems, and find it very strange that
so few people have worked at solving them in a generic way.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org




 

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