By definition, the DPH isn't going to have much to do with SAX-J.
However, you raise a good point; the SAX-J folks should decide whether
an identity transform is a goal, and if so, comments need to be
included. If not, then SAX-J is not an appropriate tool to use for
document transformations.
> He is the guy staring at 10GB of corporate XML docs and just wants
> to change
>
> <telephone>555-1234</telephone>
>
> into
>
> <telephone>555-4321</telepone>
>
> throughout the whole lot. If he uses SAX-J he blows all the
> aide-memoires stuffed into his comments? He also blows his CDATA
> marked sections. Is the DPH destined to always use a fully blown
> parser to output XML?
Hell, no! He'd be a fool to use Java for this when
s/555-1234/555-4321/g will do the trick. (I suspect that in any
real-world situation like this, *all* numbers would want to be
changed, but if not, just include the markup in the sed command.)
-Chris
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