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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@objfac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 19:01
> To: Alessandro Triglia
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: Non-infoset
>
> We would all like these numbers. What percentage of XML is:
>
> - Hand-authored?
> - Program-generated?
> - Used for data exchange?
> - Used to generate publications?
>
> Of the hand-authored XML, what percentage is written using tools that:
>
> - Expose POT (plain old text)?
> - Edit only the infoset (like form editors)?
> - Edit only the infoset plus entities (like WYSIWYG XHTML editors,
> structure editors)?
>
> There are several permathreads around these questions, but I've never
> seen a convincing answer here to these, or in fact, to any
> quantitative
> question. I hope you have better luck. However, the last time it was
> suggested here that the percentage of hand-authored XML
> written in POT
> was small relative to the total, it was pretty roundly disagreed with.
>
That is a very good answer at last.
I was not asking for actual numbers or percentages, but for hints on what those percentages may be.
And I did not suggest, even for a moment, that exposing POT is a bad thing, or that XML should be simplified, or that some universal tool should take over some of the responsibilities of the author.
What I did suggest (and am trying to determine) is that the infoset may be more important than some people believe for a large class of applications that exchange XML documents.
Alessandro
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> Bob Foster
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