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- Subject: Fast Infoset: does the name fit?
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:25:43 -0400
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Question for the Sun folks:
You've been careful to call your binary format "Fast Infoset" and not
use the word XML. That's better. However, what about the word "Infoset"?
Is FI a faithful representation of the XML Infoset? In particular,
1. Does FI refuse to encode XML documents that do not have well-defined
infosets? For instance, does it disallow relative namespace URIs? Does
every FI have a well-defined XML infoset?
2. Can FI represent infosets that do not have equivalent XML
serializations? For instance, infosets in which the in-scope namespaces
property is inconsistent with the namespace attributes property?
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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