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I tend to agree with Tim, the XML infoset is too granular to represent the level of abstraction most real world applications deal with XML. Most real world applications use an abstraction of XML that is more akin to a subset of the XPath data model (elements, attributes, and text nodes). -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth, minus 40% inheritance tax. ________________________________ From: Michael Champion [mailto:mc@x...] Sent: Mon 4/12/2004 9:41 AM To: 'xml-dev' DEV Subject: Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list available On Apr 12, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > "Which applications make no use of the Infoset abstraction (answer: > "most"). -Tim I must be seriously missing something here. Of course, if we mean the verbiage in the Infoset spec about "element information items" , you're right, but I don't think anyone has ever argued that the Infoset spec is of much interest to anyone besides specwriters. If, on the other hand, we use "infoset" to mean the labeled tree data model, all DOM, XSLT, and XQuery-based applications use the "Infoset abstraction" and only consume the XML syntax after a parser has done its magic to turn it into nodes, events, objects, or whatever. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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