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Re: CDATA sections in W3C XML Infoset
- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:49 +0100 (BST)
> The W3C XML Infoset
> is a lowest common denominator; for XML Script to be "Infoset
> compliant" it shouldn't throw anything in the W3C infoset out,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> but it's free to add any new items that are appropriate.
Though this is good advice, it's not actually required for Infoset
conformance. A spec is free to throw away anything it likes from the
standard Infoset; the key point is that it should document it:
- say what you use from the basic Infoset
- say what you do with those things you don't use (eg pass them
through, throw them away)
- say what, if anything, you need that isn't in the basic Infoset
You could, for example, throw away comments provided you say so.
-- Richard