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Re: linking, 80/20

• To: amyzing@t... (Amelia A Lewis)
• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: net.dret@d... (Erik Wilde), simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1029785860.25933.71.camel@marajen> from "Amelia A Lewis" at Aug 19, 2002 03:37:40 PM

Amelia A Lewis scripsit:

> DOM and SAX are pre-infoset APIs.  SAX does a pretty good job of
> supplying all of the information later canonicalized in the infoset,
> partly because some parts of the infoset are reasonably logical, and
> partly because the design of SAX is sufficiently clean to support it.

But mostly because the Infoset was cleverly designed by its editor to
be fairly SAX-compatible.  <buff bodypart='nails'/>

> Ugh.  Part of the reason that the infoset is an attractive abstraction
> is because it tried (even if it didn't quite succeed) to KISS.  Adding
> more infoset items (more! more! more!) is an exercise in marginalizing
> the infoset; the more cruft shoved in, the less interesting it is.

I agree.

-- 
John Cowan                              jcowan@r...
http://www.reutershealth.com            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse
                Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse
But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues
                Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues.
                        --Cousin James

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