RE: [xml-dev] Usefulness of well-formedness was RE: [xml-dev] SML (was Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services)

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

We must have read different links. Not only do I not see where Rick says anything negative about the redundancy in XML's tag structure but his mail is self explanatory and references other mails in that thread. As for the problem with the current definition of well-formedness this seems explained by the quote  
 
"The current situation where you don't know what infoset a parser will produce
when you give it a document means that at the heart of XML is a flaw which
should be removed sooner rather than later. "

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Michael Leditschke [mailto:mike@ammd.com.au] 
	Sent: Sun 2/2/2003 4:17 PM 
	To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [xml-dev] Usefulness of well-formedness was RE: [xml-dev] SML (was Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services)
	
	



	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
	> Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 3:20 AM
	> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
	> Subject: [xml-dev] SML (was Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services)
	>
	>
	
	<snip/>
	
	>
	> Rick Jelliffe had an interesting post to www-tag on this recently:
	> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Jan/0194.html
	>
	
	<snip/>
	
	Quoting from the above link;
	
	"Well-formed should be a category of minority interest to
	editor-application developers, not something for public usage."
	
	
	
	On the face of it, this appears to be a very sweeping statement.
	
	Granted, well-formedness covers a range of things from the basic
	to the (for some) esoteric, but I would have thought things like
	the redundancy inherent in XML's tag structure is of use to more
	applications that simply editors.
	
	What is the argument behind this statement?
	
	
	Regards
	Michael
	
	
	
	
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