RE: [F&O] deep-equal

I agree with David on this. Move this function as an example into an
appendix.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Carlisle
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:40 PM
> To: Ashok Malhotra
> Cc: dnovatchev@yahoo.com; public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [F&O] deep-equal
> 
> 
> 
> > Thanks!  We are going to give it another try!
> 
> I think that the language would be better without this in the core,
and
> users would benefit from being given a complete definition in the
> appendix that they could tune to their own needs, however in either
> case, I think that if you want to ignore comments the rule should be
> for elements, if it has no element children, compare the _string
value_
> this will get rid of the anomalous text node slitting due to comments
> and pis.
> 
> David
>