Re: XML InfoSet and property value preservation

Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
> ...
>   I've done nothing other than ask my library to read the file and then 
> render it back out.  Note that the "L" prefix was not merely modified, 
> it was removed entirely.  Clearly the XML library I'm using here thinks 
> it's OK to rewrite the XML.  Is this a bug?

No, it's not a bug. There is no standard whatsoever about what an XML 
API needs to provide. I even wrote a similar one for Java myself.

But that doesn't mean that "generally", APIs do not provide this kind of 
information.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:54:53 UTC