Not violently opposed to the feature, ***IF*** it has no adverse 
performance impact when not in use. If it costs any significant number of 
cycles, you're asking those who don't want it to "pay the rent" for those 
who do, and given that this is essentially a "non-XML behavior" I'm not at 
all convinced that's acceptable.

On the other hand: In my experience, most folks who think they want 
round-tripping really want better XML-aware tools -- editors, file 
compares, etc. -- and have only been forced to worry about round-tripping 
because they're trying to process the XML as text, or because their 
current tools are flat-out broken. I honestly think it's more of a service 
to the community to push back on this request as much as 
possible/reasonable.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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