RE: XML InfoSet and property value preservation

>     Clients putting sub-elements into properties should 
> accept that the server will likely parse those elements, 
> potentially storing that into some normative form, then 
> re-render that into XML when asked for it later, and that 
> semantically equivalent but byte-for-byte different data may 
> come back.  I think forcing a server author to care about 
> preserving the original XML rendering at all is a bad idea.

I agree with that. It's XML, and it should be treated as such. If the client wants it be treated as text, it must but it in a CDATA section.

lucas

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Received on Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:48:26 UTC