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Re: Syntax + object model

• To: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Subject: Re: Syntax + object model
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 04:42:50 -0400
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Arjun Ray scripsit:

> I think John Cowan once clarified that the Infoset Rec actually specifies
> only "an infoset", and not in any way "the infoset" in some normatively
> exclusive sense (though "derivative" specs of late seem quite eager to
> treat it so).

I don't think I said that.  I use "the Infoset" to mean the
meta-specification called "XML Information Set", and "an infoset"
to mean what the Infoset says can result from parsing a well-formed
namespace-compliant XML document.

As the Infoset says, infosets can be created in other ways than by
parsing; and as it does not say, they can contain information items and
properties not mentioned in the Infoset (but this is implied by the
absence of exclusion clauses).

-- 
First known example of political correctness:   John Cowan
"After Nurhachi had united all the other        http://www.reutershealth.com
Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643)       jcowan@r...
issued an order that the name Jurchen should       --S. Robert Ramsey,
be banned, and from then on, they were all         _The Languages of China_
to be called Manchus."

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