An attempt to reconcile the perspectives on serialization #296
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On a careful re-reading of the iXML specification, it seems that much of the prose uses the word “serialization” as a short hand for “constructing XML”. There are a few places where this is made explicit and a few places where it really does mean constructing a sequence of characters.
This PR is intended as a starting point for discussion on how we might improve the specification’s different perspectives on serialization.