Jonathan Robie wrote,
> Is faithful lexical round-tripping an important goal? If so, why?
It's important to any application which is sensitive to the lexical
characteristics of XML documents. They exist. If they're not yours then
you don't have to care.
> If the Information Set says that there is no distinction between <foo
> "a"/> and <foo 'a'/>, why should I work hard to preserve the
> distinction?
If all you care about is the Infoset then you don't. But the XML REC
does differentiate between the two at the lexical level, and some
applications care about that.
That said, the API I mentioned predated both SAX2's LexicalHandler (and
the Infoset REC), and the primary motivation was preserving comments
rather than quotemarks ... in particular I wanted to be able to
round-trip without dropping comments with, eg., embedded copyright
information.
Cheers,
Miles
