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I thought the W3C already had a syntax for infoset serialization at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:18 PM
> To: Simon St.Laurent
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; Erik Wilde
> Subject: [xml-dev] SLAIX (was: Can XLink be fixed)
>
>
> Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
>
> > Provided that there's a clear mechanism for serializing the
> LSI as XML
> > in some easily processed form (XLink-like or not), I
> suspect you can
> > navigate those rocks.
>
> 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."
>
> A SLAIXified infoset looks like this:
>
> There is a root element slaix:slaix which serves solely as a
> container. It has no attributes except possibly namespace attributes.
>
> Every child of slaix:slaix is an empty element with a
> qualified element type. The URI reference to which the prefix
> of the element type name is bound represents the infoset
> specification that defines elements of this type. The
> localname represents the information item type within that
> specification. There is one child for every information item
> in the infoset. If the type name has more than one word,
> spaces are replaced by underscores.
>
> The namespace-qualified attribute slaix:id
> should appear on every slaix:item element. It represents a
> DTD-compatible ID for the element, and does not correspond to
> anything in the information item. specification that controls
> this item, and the name for the type of the item in that
> specification.
>
> Attributes on child elements that are not namespace-qualified
> represent (and are named after) properties of that infoset
> item. A property which is an ordered set of information items
> is represented by a list of the slaix:id values of the
> elements corresponding to each information item. A property
> which is an unordered set of information items is represented
> similarly after providing an arbitrary ordering. A property
> which represents a simple type such as string, integer, or
> boolean is represented using the canonical value given in XML
> Schema Part 2. Properties of other types are outside the
> scope of this specification. If the property name has more
> than one word, spaces are replaced by underscores. If a
> property "has no value", the corresponding attribute is not present.
>
> Attributes on child elements that are namespace-qualified
> represent infoset augmentations: the URI reference of the
> element type specifies the infoset specification that defines
> this type of information item, and the URI reference of the
> attribute name specifies the infoset specification that
> defines this particular property.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> 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>
>
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> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> jcowan@reutershealth.com
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