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Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)

• To: wperry@f... (W. E. Perry)
• Subject: Re: heritage (was Re: SGML on the Web)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:37:24 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML DEV)
• In-reply-to: <3DA1962C.1C85EBD8@f...> from "W. E. Perry" at Oct 07, 2002 10:11:56 AM

W. E. Perry scripsit:

> The Infoset is an incomplete (as its editor continues
> to admit, I believe) abstraction derived from the syntactic possibilities
> permitted in the XML Recommendation.

Admit, is it?  Nay, sir, I proclaim it!

An effort was underway at one time to define a truly complete abstraction,
with one ADT for each of the 84 syntactic rules in the XML 1.0 Recommendation.
While I was not opposed to this, my feeling was and remains that this
would be an abstraction that didn't really abstract anything.

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