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

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To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@microsoft.com>,"'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com>,"'Miles Sabin'" <miles@milessabin.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML's Scylla and Charybdis - parse and regexp
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:58:45 +0100
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Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

> 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. 

I agree. It's very irritating to have hex character references replaced
by decimal ones if the codes that you have memorized are the hex ones.

Michael Kay

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