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On Monday 24 February 2003 06:05 pm, Tim Bray wrote:
> Well, despite being a vociferous defender of UniodeWithBrackets, I can
> see the necessity for the infoset, merely for the community of spec
> writers. If you're describing something like schema or xpath or
> whatever, it's just way easier to do it in terms of the data model than
> in terms of syntax.
Right... but FWIW. XPath, and Schema are really tied closely to the syntax of
XML too. I don't think many many people would say that XPath is a globally
applicable addressing mechanism for structured data (though I have in the
past argued for something akin to exactly that)... only that it's good for
XML.
> I suspect that the infoset is of little interest to ordinary programmers
> doing ordinary work, who will work either at the level of the syntax or
> of some particular API. -Tim
Right.
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