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Re: SLAIX (was: Can XLink be fixed)

• To: m.batsis@b... (Manos Batsis)
• Subject: Re: SLAIX (was: Can XLink be fixed)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:02:54 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E657D8576967CF448D6AF22CB42DD2690FF310@e...> from "Manos Batsis" at Aug 15, 2002 03:41:02 PM

Manos Batsis scripsit:

> However, this would seem a lot more logical if some other form of syntax =
> was used; it is redundant because it's XML in the first place.

Correct.  The main advantage of the XML syntax is that it already has a
mechanism for binding QNames for elements and properties: with an ad hoc
syntax, I'd have to reinvent that.

> My question is, you said this is a serialization for all infosets, not =
> just the infoset. So, suppose I begin to erase the explicit =
> serialization towards the original document, where should I stop to have =
> enough information for any infoset and not just the infoset? In other =
> words, what is that piece in the design that makes this serialization =
> suitable for any infoset?

Because infosets, at least the ones we have seen so far, consist of
information items which have properties, and a property is either a
simple type (boolean, integer, string, enum) or it's an unordered set
of information items, or an ordered list of information items.  In
short, it is a graph, and Layman normal form is one way to represent
graphs as XML.

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John Cowan                                <jcowan@r...>     
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