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At 4:15 PM +0000 10/31/02, Richard Tobin wrote: >What the Infoset spec defines is the Infoset of a well-formed XML >document. It ties all the items to the corresponding productions in >XML 1.0. Really? Where? I'd love to be wrong about this, but I can't find any text in the spec that seems to do that. >It also observes that Infosets may be created by other means, but it >doesn't really attempt to constrain them much. Which is the problem. Naturally a real XML document is well-formed. The problem is that there can be synthetic infosets that cannot possibly be serialized as well-formed XML documents, and other specs are being defined in terms of this most general infoset instead of the much more restrictive and interoperable case of XML itself. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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