• Subject: Re: lots of WS reading material
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:27:28 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

> 
> The de jure way to exchange infosets is as XML documents.  It's possible to
> construct an infoset that doesn't correspond to any XML document, though.
> OTOH, there are many XML documents that correspond to a single infoset.
> Waves or particles, use whichever fits the current problem.

John & I agree on everything except for the XML1.1 character repertoire, 
  and his even-handed view of syntax and infoset is admirable.  I feel I 
have to keep banging the syntax drum because if someone doesn't, there 
are a lot of people who seem to want to take the transparent-bits-on-the 
-wire away from me and hide them all behind a great big opaque API, 
because that's how Real Programmers Work.  Feh.  I'm probably 
excessively paranoid on this issue. -Tim

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