Re: [PATCH] Add CANONICAL option to xmlserialize

On 2023-10-04 12:19, Jim Jones wrote:
> On 04.10.23 11:39, vignesh C wrote:
>> 1) Why the default option was chosen without comments shouldn't it be
>> the other way round?
> I'm not sure it is the way to go. The main idea is to check if two 
> documents have the same content, and comments might be different even 
> if the contents of two documents are identical. What are your concerns 
> regarding this default behaviour?

I hope I'm not butting in, but I too would be leery of any default
behavior that's going to say thing1 and thing2 are the same thing
but ignoring (name part of thing here). If that's the comparison
I mean to make, and it's as easy as CANONICAL WITHOUT COMMENTS
to say that's what I mean, I'd be happy to write that. It also means
that the next person reading my code will know "oh, he means
'same' in *that* way", without having to think about it.

Regards,
-Chap