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Re: Article: "The horror of XML"

• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Article: "The horror of XML"
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:51:31 -0500
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At 3:23 PM +0000 10/31/02, Richard Tobin wrote:


>But if spec writers want it, they can always require an infoset
>corresponding to a well-formed XML document.
>

I suspect this may be because a lot of people don't realize how 
broken the Infoset is. I didn't, until just a couple of weeks ago 
when John Cowan pointed out to me that there was nothing in the spec 
that in any way mandated well-formedness. I just sort of always 
assumed it was there somehow. I think a lot of other people may be in 
the same boat.
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