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   Re: [xml-dev] linking, 80/20

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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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