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Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote: > I would like to encourage the XML community to [...] not get bogged > down by the historical baggage of the M in XML. You mean "Mosher"? :-) (For the historically challenged, the "GML" in "SGML" originally stood for Goldfarb, Mosher, and Lorie.) Actually, the "data" vs. "document" dichotomy has been there since the beginning. Goldfarb himself has said: # [M]y chief motivation was information retrieval, not # typesetting. On a more serious note, however, the notion of an "information set" has to do with what information is present in the document/data object, rather than how it is retrieved. The purpose of the Infoset WG is to define what an XML processor must, should, and may tell an application, not to specify the means it uses for doing so. A tree-based API like DOM informs its client of the child->parent relationship by an explicit API call. A stream-based interface like SAX does the same implicitly by the order of "startElement" and "endElement" events. Both provide the information. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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