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   Re: [xml-dev] Article: "The horror of XML"

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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 4:15 PM +0000 10/31/02, Richard Tobin wrote:
>
> >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.

What well-formedness errors are possible in a synthetic Infoset?
The only ones I can spot are:

    + duplicated attribute names on an element
    + processing instructions whose [content] property contains
      a PIC delimiter (?>)
    + comments containing a COM delimiter (--)
    + illegal characters in element and attribute names
      (this one is questionable)
    + countless namespace pathologies

Are there any others?

I really don't believe the first four items are worth getting
worked up over.  The last one (namespace pathologies) is the only
serious problem.


--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com




 

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