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Re: Why the Infoset?

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:01:33 -0400

At 12:44 PM +0100 8/1/00, Sean McGrath wrote:
>[At 20:56 31/07/00 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:]
>>
>>Suppose this: we define a 100% complete abstract model of an XML 1.0, and
>>XML Namespace compliant document, and also define a mechanism for defining
>>subsets of such an abstract model. Sort of the opposite of base class
>>inheritance where sub classes gain properties, we define a pruning mechanism
>>to eliminate certain properties from subsets of the base information set. In
>>this scenario, the current XML Information Set would be derived from the
>>full fidelity  Base XML Information Set.
>
>Count me in.
>
>This is the sort of "partical physics" I think we need
>beneath XML 1.
>

But there is a particle physics beneath the InfoSet that applications 
can use if they like. It's called the stream. The particles are 
bytes.  That may seem a little too fundamental to you, and you may 
want something a little higher level. OK. But all we're doing here is 
arguing about which layers of abstraction are useful.

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