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At 4:15 PM +0000 10/31/02, Richard Tobin wrote:
>What the Infoset spec defines is the Infoset of a well-formed XML
>document. It ties all the items to the corresponding productions in
>XML 1.0.
Really? Where? I'd love to be wrong about this, but I can't find any
text in the spec that seems to do that.
>It also observes that Infosets may be created by other means, but it
>doesn't really attempt to constrain them much.
Which is the problem. Naturally a real XML document is well-formed.
The problem is that there can be synthetic infosets that cannot
possibly be serialized as well-formed XML documents, and other specs
are being defined in terms of this most general infoset instead of
the much more restrictive and interoperable case of XML itself.
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