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Don Park writes:
> SAX, as it currently stands, does not return XML comments. This is
> just fine for one way processing of XML documents. However, I am
> having a problem with SAXDOM because of this seemingly irrelavant
> information loss.
>
> I will soon be adding DOM output classes to SAXDOM but documents
> edited with SAXDOM will lose all comments. I think this is a
> significant weakness of SAX.
Comments and CDATA sections will certainly be near the top of the list
for a level-two SAX, if people decide that we need such a beastie. In
the mean time, please remember that the DOM models everything that
_can_ be represented, not everything that _must_ be represented.
There will probably end up being a core set of information that every
DOM builder must provide, but I'd expect that much of it will be
optional. A DOM builder for a simple processing tool won't want to
waste nodes for information that it doesn't need (such as internal
entity boundaries).
I think that the chair of the DOM WG, Lauren Wood, reads this list;
perhaps she can comment or correct any mistake that I might have made
here.
All the best,
David
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