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Re: Infoset chewing gum (was Re: linking, 80/20)

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: Infoset chewing gum (was Re: linking, 80/20)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:08:14 -0600
• Cc: Erik Wilde <net.dret@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Paul Prescod <paul@p...> of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:06:34 PDT." <3D6179FA.670E8103@p...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Erik Wilde wrote:
> > 
> >...
> > i think that once you start doing interesting and diverse things with
> > structured data, there must be a common understanding what is relevant
> > and what is not, so in summary: what is the essential content of the
> > data. and i think this is where the infoset started. xquery would be
> > impossible with only the xml syntax. dom had to made the same decisions
> > (though it made some of the differently).
> 
> That's fine. Infoset extensions are wonderful for spec writers. More
> power to the infoset!
> 
> But the issue at hand is a *syntactic* *interoperability* issue.

<AOL>Yes.  Precisely.  I've been late keeping up with this thread, and I'm 
glad someone got to this point before I did.</AOL>

I'm not sure how this discussion keeps drifting to the semantics, which don't 
bother me (local interpretation, IMHO, works especially for linking).

I suppose there is one wry historical note related to semantics: as I 
understand it, the actuate and show bugs were introduced in order to align 
XLink more closely with HTML href.  Then along comes the HTML WG to dis XLink 
anyway, which makes those baubles even more useless.


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