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Re: The subsetting has begun


Re:  The subsetting has begun
Mike Champion wrote:

> In other words, it's not going to happen, so what's the point of wishing 
> it would?  

Arguably it's expensive to stack up XML systems without a clean 
seperation between syntax and content models. And people do get 
confused between with two - just this sort of mixup help mess up RDF 
adoption for years (and even today, people don't or won't 
acknowldege the difference between an RDF graph and RDF/XML).


> I wish people would just acknowledge that the XML syntax and 
> Infoset(s) were joined at birth (every well-formed XML document can be 
> parsed into a tree). 

And not all well formed XML document have an XML Infoset.


> Then maybe we could do what has to be done to make 
> the actual Infoset spec more useful (e.g., by making the language less 
> awkward, such as "element" rather than "element information item" 
> [gag]), and making it as formally rigorous as the syntax spec (somebody 
> said that this could be done with ASN.1, but I don't know that).   My 
> wish sounds about as futile as Bill's wish for pristine waters, I fear.  

Pristine waters I can live without, but poor engineering is a 
different matter :) A realpolitik approach to XML technology is 
fine, then it's down to cost/benefit.

I do think you can build an abstract content model for XML and get 
it to interop (layering on SAX might be a quick win). the XML 
Infoset would need to be revised to include non-namespaced XML as 
'meaningful' (for starters).

One technology where people don't seem to get confused between 
models and syntax is UML (a few tools vendors and software 
archietcts excepted); maybe that's becuase it's pictorial.

Bill de hÓra



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