Re: [xml-dev] Typing and paranoia

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Re: [xml-dev] Typing and paranoia
Mike Champion scripsit:

> I would not, for example, argue that
> ill-formed HTML-like syntax that gets cleaned/parsed into a form that
> a DOM program can work with is "XML".  That *would* be polluting the
> brand name!

Well, I won't claim that what TagSoup reads is "XML", then.  What it
*outputs* is XML by your standards, though not by Tim's (or mine, really;
ironic that a textual-fundamentalist volunteered to write the Infoset
specification).

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