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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Typing and paranoia
 No quarrel other than being sure that people who make and sell platforms don't get away with telling people they are selling XML. And that people who define InfoSets don't confuse people into believing they are defining XML. That is the path back to homogeneous system darkness. Infoset-driven specifications misunderstood have the same effect as the poppies of the Wicked Witch of the West. They put the mammals to sleep and then one has to hope the Tin Man (a machine) and the Scarecrow (brainless representations) can save you. One magic spell is as good as another in the Emerald City but don't try to take the ruby slippers back to Kansas. They don't work there. To Oz? To Oz! len -----Original Message----- From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] And Tim Bray said "it would be disastrous if you were able to advertise to some external party that you provide XML, and then offered anything but unicode-with-angle-brackets." Well, I don't think it's either terrifying or disastrous to have a menu of standardized infoset serializations available -- e.g., things like WikiML for human authoring, something like WBXML (what little I know of it) for constrained devices, something like serialized SAX events for high performance environments. I would totally agree that either calling an alternative "XML" without qualification would be stupid, but presumably this is a problem that HTTP content negotiation could handle easily if someone offered an alternative *standardized* "XML" serialization on their website. 
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