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RE: The subsetting has begun

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• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Lauren Wood" <lauren@t...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:38:47 -0800
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On 25 Feb 2003 at 10:24, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:21 AM
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > 
> > jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
> > ><span tone="huffy">I suppose you think it's just an accident 
> > that the 
> > >Infoset happens to talk about elements, attributes, processing 
> > >instructions, namespaces, etc.?</span>
> > 
> > The part that amazes me is people who want to use that 
> > particular abstraction to describe things other than markup!
> 
> Why are you amazed? The abstraction works well for defining structured
> and semi-structured data plus the proliferation of tools that exist for
> manipulating and otherwise processing instances of the abstraction are
> quite useful to many producers and consumers of data. 

True. People have been talking about using those concepts to 
represent whatever data they had for some time; I remember talking to 
people about it back in very early DOM days (1997). Tree-processing 
concepts can be used for things other than XML ;-) 

Lauren

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