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- From: "Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com>
- To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@prescod.net>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:46:41 -0800
That's fine. But it may be the case that the process of evaluating the information set requirements has uncovered an area where XML, either as a syntax or as an information set, is not adequate to handle a reasonable usage of it.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
Paul Prescod
Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 2:31 PM
To: xml-dev
Subject: Re: XML Information Set Requirements, W3C Note 18-February-1999
"Jeffrey E. Sussna" wrote:
>
> I think this issue needs to be addressed. It may be the case that
> the stream contains, not one, but many documents, where each
> information "packet" is a document. Or perhaps the afore-mentioned
> notion of "document fragment" is introduced, and each packet is a
> fragment. But it will definitely be necessary to support this kind of
> processing in some manner.
The role of the information set requirements committee is to make explicit
the implicit data model described in vague terms in the XML specification.
Their responsibility is not to point XML in a bold new direction.
--
Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
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