> You mention concerns, but do you see any value in i?  Whether in my
> examples or in other areas?

If the same thing can be accomplished via existing means (which, based on your 
examples, seems possible), then I don't personally see a strong case for it.

> The fact that it is a small, backwardly compatible change

FWIW, I don't see this as a small change. I also don't like the inconsistencies 
it would create (as outlined in my previous email).

> Because it is such a small change, and limited to BXMLSerializer, it
> would be easy to just push this into a tiny Apache Extras project as
> Sandro suggested.

You can do this of course, but you'd basically be forking the code and opening 
the door to future incompatibility.

G

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