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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Mike Champion wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:16:26 -0800, Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Waitaminnit -- since when is SAX "pure syntax"?
> > SAX is the quintessential implementation of the XML Infoset!
> > All non-Infoset syntactic features of the source document
> > are stripped out; the application only sees (a representation
> > of) the abstract information items.
>
> Joe and Simon are abolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking ...
> probably not at all.
>
> But it further strengthens the argument that essentially nobody except
> Simon :-) and the proverbial desperate Perl hacker actually works with XML
> at the pure syntax level....
Um. Well, I guess that's true if you don't count looking at raw XML as
working with it ;-) Somehow I suspect being able to intuit what's going
wrong in code by looking at (and understanding) the data being read in /
spat out is a huge win.
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