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

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp
From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:43:25 +0100
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Dare Obasanjo wrote,
> In my experience faithful lexical round tripping is mainly important
> to applications that act as editors. In such cases, the people
> requesting such features in an API want even more requirements than
> XML 1.0 deems necessary such as preserving attribute order and all
> whitespace.

That wasn't my application, but the API did indeed support preservation 
of attribute order and all whitespace.

Cheers,


Miles

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