Re: XML InfoSet and property value preservation

Lukas Mathis wrote:
>>     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.

I agree with that too. As a matter of fact, I don't think anybody 
disagrees here.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:11:11 UTC