Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev] Lessons learned from the XML experiment

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

 At the lowest level, we can take this grammar
> as a data model *of the stream of bytes*.
> 

But you can't take it as a model of the information conveyed by the document, because the XML rec clearly says that some grammatical distinctions, for example the order of attributes, do not convey information.

Michael Kay
Saxonica