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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:
> Thanks. I think you've finally succeeded in convincing me of what
> Simon and Walter have been claiming for the last several years, that
> the Infoset is not only useless but actively harmful. It should be
> deprecated, and future specs such as XQuery/XPath 2.0 should base
> themselves on XML 1.0 plus namespaces and actively ignore the infoset.
If the Infoset were an API, I would absolutely agree with you. The DOM
*is* an API, and has the same lack of rules, which is one reason why it's a poor
API, as we both know. But the Infoset is only an abstract data model,
and it doesn't need to enforce well-formedness rules. It's just a way
of talking about what it is that concrete APIs and other processes
have or make available.
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