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- From: Steve Rowe <sarowe@textwise.com>
- To: abrahams@acm.org, XMLDev list <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:42:11 -0400
Paul Abrahams wrote:
>
> 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.
From section 1.1 of the XInclude 17-July-2000 Working Draft [1]:
[XInclude] defines a specific processing model for merging
information sets.
From section 1.2:
XInclude operates on information sets and thus is orthogonal
to parsing.
(etc.)
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude
Steve Rowe
MNIS-TextWise Labs
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