On Thursday, 09/19/2002 at 10:10 AST, "Alex Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure I understand completely - I'm trying to provide better XML-aware > tools. It's true that if you never look at the raw text of an XML document > then you don't care about round-tripping, but I doubt that the need to do > that occasionally is going to go away any time soon. That certainly hasn't > happened in the 5 years since XML has been around.
The frequency of folks looking at the textfile has decreased SUBSTANTIALLY over the past five years; these days it's mostly done when debugging. For that purpose, providing locator references and using a viewer/editor which will show you the point specified by the locator is generally both sufficient and more useful than round-tripping annotations would be. In other words: Rather than regenerating the source, _capture_ the source and point back to it. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
