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>I think this issue needs to be addressed. It may be the case that the stream >contains, not one, but many documents, where each information "packet" is a >document. Or perhaps the afore-mentioned notion of "document fragment" is >introduced, and each packet is a fragment. But it will definitely be >necessary to support this kind of processing in some manner. It definitely needs to be addressed. XML would do well to take a long hard look at natural language. That is, what are the aspects of natural langauge that allow us to deal with them in both spoken and written form in a variety of media (on paper, on screen, on tape, on air, etc...)? As Jeffrey suggested, we're getting stuck on the markup when markup is only a small part of the picture. If that happens we're going to end up with Latin! It is formal and precise, but not so terribly useful for communication. These days that's a crippling liability. Does the W3C have a set of use-cases for XML. I'd be very interested to see them. Rob > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of >John Cowan >Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 2:07 PM >To: XML Dev >Subject: Re: XML Information Set Requirements, W3C Note 18-February-1999 > > >Nathan Kurz wrote: > >> And if the stream is continuous (for example, an XML >> stock ticker) even the concept of a well-formed stream seems tenuous. > >It's not clear that XML supports infinitely long streams (where the >end-tag of the document element is *never* reached). > >-- >John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... > You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. > You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. > Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN >981-02-3594-1 >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN >981-02-3594-1 >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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