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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Mike Champion wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:16:26 -0800, Joe English <jenglish@f...> > wrote: > > > > Waitaminnit -- since when is SAX "pure syntax"? > > SAX is the quintessential implementation of the XML Infoset! > > All non-Infoset syntactic features of the source document > > are stripped out; the application only sees (a representation > > of) the abstract information items. > > Joe and Simon are abolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking ... > probably not at all. > > But it further strengthens the argument that essentially nobody except > Simon :-) and the proverbial desperate Perl hacker actually works with XML > at the pure syntax level.... Um. Well, I guess that's true if you don't count looking at raw XML as working with it ;-) Somehow I suspect being able to intuit what's going wrong in code by looking at (and understanding) the data being read in / spat out is a huge win.
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