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Amelia A Lewis scripsit:
> DOM and SAX are pre-infoset APIs. SAX does a pretty good job of
> supplying all of the information later canonicalized in the infoset,
> partly because some parts of the infoset are reasonably logical, and
> partly because the design of SAX is sufficiently clean to support it.
But mostly because the Infoset was cleverly designed by its editor to
be fairly SAX-compatible. <buff bodypart='nails'/>
> Ugh. Part of the reason that the infoset is an attractive abstraction
> is because it tried (even if it didn't quite succeed) to KISS. Adding
> more infoset items (more! more! more!) is an exercise in marginalizing
> the infoset; the more cruft shoved in, the less interesting it is.
I agree.
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