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<TITLE>RE: SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> >Do we really need to know about CDATA sections </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Debatable perhaps, but supported by the DOM. (Anyone know why?)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> But I'd really like to see better SAX/DOM integration, so Yes!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It seems we are trying to provide two views of a document, the reader's view and the writer's view. The reader's view needs to present roughly what's in SAX1. The writer's view arguably should preserve all the arbitrary choices made by the document author, including whether to use CDATA or entity references or character references, where to put the line breaks, whether to use empty element syntax, where to put optional spaces, what kind of quotes to use round attributes, etc, etc. If we are retaining any of this for the benefit of people who want to edit the document, then logically we should retain all of it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Mike Kay</FONT>
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