Comments and element content for serialization

[Doug Davis <du...@us.ibm.com>]

FYI - just an interesting note - kind of related to whether we
can just re-serialize data if someone asks for it after we deserialized
it.
-Dug

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Rich Salz <rs...@zolera.com>@w3.org on 06/01/2001 10:35:52 AM

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Which of the following are legal serializations for the integer 12?
     <i>1<!-- x-->2</i>
     <i><!-- x-->12</i>
     <i><![CDATA[1]]>2</i>
     <i><![CDATA[12]]></i>

In looking at the sec5.1 serialization rules, it says simple values are
character data without any subelements.  But these are siblings, not
children.

Seems like a clarification is needed.
     /r$