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Re: XML 1.1 and other specs

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: XML 1.1 and other specs
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p04330101b9db05632f07@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Oct 22, 2002 09:49:00 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Thanks. I think you've finally succeeded in convincing me of what 
> Simon and Walter have been claiming for the last several years, that 
> the Infoset is not only useless but actively harmful. It should be 
> deprecated, and future specs such as XQuery/XPath 2.0 should base 
> themselves on XML 1.0 plus namespaces and actively ignore the infoset.

If the Infoset were an API, I would absolutely agree with you.  The DOM
*is* an API, and has the same lack of rules, which is one reason why it's a poor
API, as we both know.  But the Infoset is only an abstract data model,
and it doesn't need to enforce well-formedness rules.  It's just a way
of talking about what it is that concrete APIs and other processes
have or make available.

-- 
All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part          John Cowan
that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part            www.ccil.org/~cowan
that cooks with olive oil, and the part that            www.reutershealth.com
cooks with butter. -- David Chessler                    jcowan@r...

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