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- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- To: abrahams@acm.org, XMLDev list <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:28:09 -0500
IMO, it answers the question "what is a node?" in XML.
This enables the information items to
be independent of implementation and otherwise,
reliable addressing without requiring "a specific
interface or class of interfaces" (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset).
Without it, a clear description of the
properties required for well-formedness is
difficult. So yes, the abstract data set.
Len Bullard
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul W. Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@valinet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:05 PM
To: XMLDev list
Subject: Why the Infoset?
What is the purpose of the XML Infoset? Is it mainly
intended to enlighten implementors about what the abstract
structure of an XML document is, or does it have some other
less obvious uses? Are there other XML specs that refer to
it in normative contexts, i.e., that would be ill-defined
without the Infoset? The XPath spec refers to it in a
non-normative context but that doesn't count.
Paul Abrahams
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