SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1
David Megginson
david at megginson.com
Wed Mar 24 19:27:51 GMT 1999
Bill la Forge writes:
> 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?
I would guess that the DOM WG believed that users of XML editors and
repositories would want to see CDATA section boundaries and comments
survive a round trip in and out of the tools. Personally, I am
extremely skeptical, but I have heard this argument many times from
the employees of the vendors themselves.
All the best,
David
--
David Megginson david at megginson.com
http://www.megginson.com/
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)
More information about the Xml-dev
mailing list