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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 15:16, Joe English wrote:
> > and making
> > it as formally rigorous as the syntax spec (somebody said that this could
> > be done with ASN.1, but I don't know that).
>
> IMO, the level of rigor in the XML Infoset REC is just
> about right. It lists the essential information content
> of a parsed document, without constraining the way that
> information is represented. ASN.1 would be a gross
> overspecification.
ASN.1 doesn't constrain representation, it's purely an Abstract Syntax
Notation - it lists what information content something has, and nothing more.
Element ::= {
name QName,
attributes SEQUENCE OF SEQUENCE {
name QName,
content UTF8String
},
children SEQUENCE OF Node
}
Node ::= CHOICE {
element Element,
comment UTF8String,
processInstruction ProcessingInstruction,
cdata UTF8String
}
...
>
> --Joe English
>
ABS
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