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Re: Why the Infoset?

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@i...>,"xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:58:29 -0400

John Aldridge wrote:

> (b) Every application will have distinct opinions about what constitutes a
> significant difference, so trying to standardise on one set is doomed to
> failure.

For which reason, conformance to the Infoset is defined as documenting
what parts of it you use, and every application is free to add more
stuff as it desires.

"Core" conformance is purely a convenience notion.

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