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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 12:09:09 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200210311642.QAA00269@m...>
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At 4:42 PM +0000 10/31/02, Richard Tobin wrote:

>At the beginning of every Info Item section there are "XML Definition"
>and/or "XML Syntax" links.  But I guess you must be hoping for more
>detail, because you can't have missed them.

Yes, I am hoping for more detail. The problem is that this defines an 
XML element (for example). However, a little later we see: "There is 
an element information item for each element appearing in the XML 
document." I don't see anything that ties the definition of an 
element in real XML to the definition of an element information item 
in a synthetic information set. The connection is one way. An element 
produces an element information item but an element information item 
does not produce an element.
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