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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 16:16:31 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:36:11AM -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> [...] It seems like the
> people who've tried hardest to push the world to an infoset-centric view
> of XML are now finding that even that isn't consistent enough for their
> needs.

I view the XML Information Set spec as defining a vocabulary for
other specs to use.  It's not a serialization spec.  The extent
to which it helps in that area is that at least it helps people
agree what they are talking about.  Or, they can argue about
ambiguities in the infoset spec, but a`t least they have a
starting point for discussion.

So I for one see the Infoset as helping, although I don't like
the usage illustrated in "an XML parser produces an infoset",
because it confuses description with the thing described.

Liam

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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