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[At 20:56 31/07/00 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:] > >Suppose this: we define a 100% complete abstract model of an XML 1.0, and >XML Namespace compliant document, and also define a mechanism for defining >subsets of such an abstract model. Sort of the opposite of base class >inheritance where sub classes gain properties, we define a pruning mechanism >to eliminate certain properties from subsets of the base information set. In >this scenario, the current XML Information Set would be derived from the >full fidelity Base XML Information Set. Count me in. This is the sort of "partical physics" I think we need beneath XML 1. Otherwise we are forever doomed to pulling out hair out as XML editors/databases etc. etc. make infuriating tranformations behind our backs in syntactic areas they consider "insignificant". XFM only scratches the surface of this and I would love to see it teased out and formalized. It would be great if prunes of MOAI (Mother of All Infosets) could be allocated names. Then I can walk up to a vendor and say "does your tool read/write XXXX infoset?". regards, Sean http://www.pyxie.org - an Open Source XML Processing library for Python
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