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Re: Noise-free Complex Systems

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• Subject: Re: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:36:11 -0500
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clbullar@i... (Bullard, Claude L (Len)) writes:
>This is related to Berners-Lee's recent 
>post to the TAG list on the requirement 
>for equality of 'chunks' of XML regardless 
>of the system component handling the 
>chunk.  

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2004Jan/0013.html

>In other words, what is needed 
>for any XML part or whole to remain 
>invariant across any current or future 
>WWW system (the WWW is a system of 
>systems)?

I'm not sure I have any sympathy for this problem.  It seems like the
people who've tried hardest to push the world to an infoset-centric view
of XML are now finding that even that isn't consistent enough for their
needs.

I think they'd do well to find a data representation solution that
actually meets their needs rather than trying to nail XML to a wall.
It's not going to stick.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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