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> By "support" I know that is vague, but I don't have a better word yet.
> I'm trying to reanimate my thinking and work on an XDM Serialization
> specification which is usable for data exchange.
> So for example if I serialize to a stream (or file)
>
> document { 1 , "hi" ,<foo/> , 2 }
>
> then then deserialize that back into XDM values ... how "important" is it to
> reconstruct the sequence inside the document.
As far as I can see, the only reason anyone would want to use your new
serialization format is because it round-trips any XDM instance losslessly.
I might be prepared to put up with a few restrictions, such as losing
unparsed entities or the base URI property, but not with this one.
Concerning your example
document { 1 , "hi" ,<foo/> , 2 }
that isn't, of course, a representation of an XDM instance. It's a query
whose result would be best represented as
document{ text{"1 hi"}, element {foo}{}, text{"2"} }
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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