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John Cowan writes:
> I'd like to launch a discussion about solving the infoset
> serialization problem once and for all, for every kind of infoset.
> As a trial balloon, I propose SLAIX, which stands for "serializing in
> Layman normal form any infoset as XML."
Layman normal form? As in Andrew Layman? This certainly isn't meant
for the layman.
> The document
>
> <book>
> <author sort="brownjohn">John Brown</author>
> <title>My Life</title>
> </book>
>
> SLAIXifies somewhat as follows:
>
> <slaix:slaix slaix:xmlns="..."
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset";>
> <document slaix:id="root" children="e1" document_element="e1"
> base_URI="..."/>
> <element slaix:id="e1" local_name="book" children="e2 e3"
> attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
> base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
> <element slaix:id="e2" local_name="author" children="c1 c2 c3 c4 c5
> c6 c7 c8 c9 c10"
> attributes="a1" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
> base_URI="..." parent="book"/>
> <element slaix:id="e3" local_name="title" children="c11 c12 c13 c14
> c15 c16 c17"
> attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
> base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
> <attribute slaix:id="a1" local_name="sort"
> normalized_value="brownjohn"
> specified="true" attribute_type="CDATA" owner_element="e2"/>
> <namespace slaix:id="n1" prefix="xml"
> namespace_name="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
> <character slaix:id="c1" character_code="74"
> element_content_whitespace
> = "false" parent="e2"/>
> <!-- boring character elements omitted -->
> </slaix:slaix>
Sorry, John, but that's not only repulsive but it encourages the piling
on ever more crap into the infoset. A more convincing Infoset
serialization for that document would look like:
<book>
<author sort="brownjohn">John Brown</author>
<title>My Life</title>
</book>
Or were you trying to make that point through blistering self-parody?
It's not April, so it's hard to tell. But if you wanted rejection out
of hand followed by cackling hysterical laughter, you got it.
Yecch.
--
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com
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