RE: [xml-dev] Re: Does the XML syntax have an underlying data model?

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Henry Thompson wrote:

	My personal take on where this leads 
 	is recorded here, vintage 2001:

http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/XML_MetaArchitecture.html 

Thanks Henry! 

Your notes are a great historical memory. Here is an extract from your notes; it is spot-on to this discussion:

	In the interests of time, XML 1.0 did not
 	define its own data model.
	   - So XPath had to define it.
	   - And XLink had to define it.
	   - And the DOM had to define it.
	   - Finally, later than we'd have liked, 
 	     we're about to get: 
	     The XML Information Set or Infoset.