Re: SAX-J and the DPH (DJH?)
Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:21:33 -0500 (EST)
At 10:35 AM 12/30/97 -0500, Chris Maden wrote:
>[Sean McGrath]
>> I am wondering where XML-Devers see SAX-J relative to DPH?.
>
>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.
If a byte-for-byte entity transform (and not just a grove-identity
transform) is a requirement, SAX-J would have to keep a whole pile of
information about whitespace and perhaps other normalizations that I forget
right now...
Paul Prescod