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David Megginson wrote: > One problem is that the PR does not fully define the information set > that an XML parser is required to return to an application (there a > few scattered rules, such as the ignorable-whitespace rule). ... in my, as yet, short presence in this group, quandries of this sort have arisen with great regularity. that among a group of people who have no small amount of experience with the subject matter. at those times, i miss something as clear as a denotational definition for xm<EM>l</EM>. that is, something which expressed the equivalent dom instances / content for all legal xml forms. the reading i've done in the dom draft has been informative, but the relations are (too) often left as an "exercise for the reader". in the long run, such a definition would (have already) save(d) a deal of time and effort. the behaviour of all parsers and processors (including sax) would be much easier to describe, since, even in cases where they don't handle the full "language", it would be clear that, in order to "conform", they would have to either produce at least a consistent dom-subset, or (if a parser) provide sufficient data to produce one from that xml subset which they do handle. given such a definition, even an api as reduced as the sax would be easier to specify. i recognize, that the xml-standard should neither prescribe nor proscribe implementation techniques. i can understand this. i also know that a lot of has been accomplished in a very short time. still, as an implementor, i often think that it would be <EM>very</EM> nice, to have (already often "had") a standard which were actually that of a "language" rather than that of a "notation". has anyone addressed this task? xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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