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RE: The subsetting has begun

• To: 'Gavin Thomas Nicol' <gtn@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:17:51 -0600

Thanks Gavin.  For the kinds of subsets being 
discussed, is a 'syntax-only' specification 
the only kind of spec needed?   I grant 
that works for XML but it opens up the 
question, is a proper subset of XML 1.0 
really what is being asked for by those 
asking for a subset?  Or are they asking 
for a syntax subset plus a matching infoset?

len


From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...]

On Monday 24 February 2003 03:57 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Question:  how many of you participating in this
> thread have read Tim Bray's XML-SW paper at
> textuality.com?
>
> http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html

I'd remove namespaces, the infoset, xml:space, xml:lang and xml:base.

In the case of namespaces, xml:space, xml:lang, and xml:base: these are markup 
constructs that needn't be standardized in the *syntax* specification, but 
should instead be defined at a higher level. 

The infoset is similar: the information gleaned from an XML document is 
necessarily application-specific, and as such, there is no need to make a 
single abstract set of information canonical.

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