Re: [xml-dev] text nodes of document in XDM

[Michael Sokolov <sokolov@ifactory.com>]

Have you considered implementing serialization of sequences of XdmItems 
rather than documents?  That way you could preserve the distinctions 
that are being lost when you go to a document.  If somebody wants to 
make a document from your serialized format, they could always construct 
it easily enough.

-Mike

On 1/12/2011 7:36 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 12:23, David Lee wrote:
>
>> My extrapoliation from this is that only atomic and text nodes are
>> concatenated into text nodes, and other node types where allowed are 
>> left as
>> a sequence,
>> as part of constructing XDM (not serializing it).
>
>
> When the content of a document or element node is constructed from a 
> sequence, you do not get the original sequence ever. atomic items are 
> made into text nodes, and adjacent text nodes are concatenated, empty 
> text nodes are dropped, attribute nodes either generate an error or 
> are moved to the attributes of the element being constructed, and 
> other nodes are _copied_ so have a new identity and possibly new 
> in-scope namespaces, depending on settings.
>
> David