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Re: Noise-free Complex Systems

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• Subject: Re: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: 'Liam Quin' <liam@w...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:34:44 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:24:17PM -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> The question is, what does the infoset specification 
> provide that would answer or help create an answer 
> to the request for equivalence of any given XML set 
> under use by multiple systems?
> 
> (I don't know how to put Timbl's "chunk" term more precisely 
> given namespaces.)

Neither do I.  The Information Set specification doesn't seem to
me to help at all if you take things that are not in fact XML
documents, and neither does the XML Specification itself.  You
can only really talk about a chunk of XML in terms of the
containing XML document, in those documents.

The XML Fragment Interchange (a candidate recommendation since 2001)
[1] may be a starting point, but it needs two implementations to get
out of CR and move towards bcoming a REC.  Possibly that spec needs
to be updated, as it predates the Infoset and xml:base for example,
and maybe interest in it is finally building.

Liam


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-fragment

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http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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