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AndrewWatt2000@a... writes: >Can you explain why linking and styling are "in" this narrower view >and other things not? Just the original terms of the project. Syntax (SGML-lite), Style (DSSSL-lite), and Linking (HyTime-lite). >Might this not be a fairly arbitrary definition of where the >boundaries of XML should be drawn? Of course. Personally, I'd draw the line at syntax and leave the rest well enough alone as their own separate projects. >AABSABI (or XML Infoset, or PSVI, if you prefer) seems to me to be key >to the debate of what XML "is" or, maybe more precisely, what XML is >being transmogrified into. > >On reflection, don't you think it's an important issue? It's an important issue, but I don't think it's anything to do with XML. I don't view the original and reasonably modest XML Infoset as particularly central to XML either, though it's certainly based on XML. I prefer to leave transmogrification to Calvin and Hobbes. ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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