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On 06 Jul 2001 15:54:13 +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > I've always been very curious to know what the rationale for that > is. To me, a major part of what the infoset was supposed to be about > was to draw the line between logically significant information and > purely lexical information. The current version fails to achieve this. Where exactly in XML 1.0 is the distinction between logical and lexical information drawn? I don't believe it really is, except as an unfortunate side-effect of describing parsing in the same document which describes syntax. I can't say I trust anyone who talks about _the_ logical view of an XML document - I don't believe any such thing exists in a general way. At best, there may be some consensus among data-oriented folks, but I don't believe there is any general consensus about what always matters and what always doesn't. Is XML what goes into a parser or what comes out? I used to argue for blurring those two, but I'm leaning more and more toward XML being the input, not the result of parsing.
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