Re: Representation of strings and characters in XML version of ixml

> 1. You can't round-trip the representation and
> 2. You need to look at the content of the @from and @to to know
> whether it is a straight character or an encoded one.
>
> Do we care either way?

I don’t, really. But I don’t know if I fully understand the importance
of round tripping. 

> 1. We could merge dstring and sstring, if we don't care about external
> representation.
>
> or alternatively
>
> 2. We could split @from and @to into their 3 cases.

I’m not going to fight against it if the round tripping use case
warrants it, but I’d rather not.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica