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RE: The subsetting has begun

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• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:55:09 -0500
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dareo@m... (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
>Future versions of XML that don't make the infoset a first class
>consideration are refusing to learn from history. For many people who
>use XML, the syntax is incidental but the data model is not. 

How unfortunate for them.

But perhaps they like the way "element information item" rolls off the
tongue?

It has come up a few times around here that XML 1.0 didn't start with
the infoset precisely because there were people who didn't feel that
history taught the same things you apparently see.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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