Re: [xml-dev] An XML document is an information resource (series ofoctet

[Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>]

On 6/20/2023 8:36 AM, Roger L Costello wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This document [1] defines JSON documents this way:
>
> A JSON document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/json media type.
>
> Would it be correct to define XML documents in an analogous way:
>
> An XML document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/xml media type.
XML documents don't always have (and shouldn't always have, IMO) the 
application/xml media type.  And an XML document is (by the XML 
Recommendation) "composed of units called entities."  Since some of 
those entities may be included by reference, an XML document may be more 
than the collection of octets that compose it.

> Two More Questions:
>
> 1. What is an "information resource"?
>
> 2. The parenthetical remark seems to imply that an information resource is a "series of octets". Is an information resource a series of octets?
>
> /Roger
>
> [1] https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html#name-json-document
>
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