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Re: Typing and paranoia

• To: mc@x... (Mike Champion)
• Subject: Re: Typing and paranoia
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:59:33 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: tbray@t... (Tim Bray), jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l... (XML Dev)
• In-reply-to: <oprgyfmhxaezizxn@localhost> from "Mike Champion" at Dec 05, 2002 06:02:31 PM

Mike Champion scripsit:

> I would not, for example, argue that
> ill-formed HTML-like syntax that gets cleaned/parsed into a form that
> a DOM program can work with is "XML".  That *would* be polluting the
> brand name!

Well, I won't claim that what TagSoup reads is "XML", then.  What it
*outputs* is XML by your standards, though not by Tim's (or mine, really;
ironic that a textual-fundamentalist volunteered to write the Infoset
specification).

-- 
[W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little              John Cowan
febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot       jcowan@r...
that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith          www.ccil.org/~cowan
in the benignancy of vegetables.  --And Rosta           www.reutershealth.com

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