Michael Kay wrote:
> I don't really accept the arguments about attribute value normalization. I
> think the real reason parsers (and APIs) don't provide more information is
> an obsession with performance, not realizing that for many applications,
> parser performance is not the #1 objective.
That's fair enough - I think I was trying to be more charitable to
parser writers. Attribute value normalization certainly causes problems
when trying to parse XPath from an attribute value and give good error
locations.
However I would say that reporting accurate line and column numbers has
very little to do with performance, as I've been able to write a parser
with roughly the same performance as expat that does just that.
John
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