SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

[Bill la Forge]

From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn at eps.inso.com>
>CDATA sections *are* different from normal text, even if only 
>because the author used them.

Again, is anyone aware of why CDATA is preserved by the DOM?
What was the reasoning behind this decision? Other things, like
whitespace within an element tag or even attribute order, are not preserved.
Why then was CDATA? 

Bill


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