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On Monday 24 February 2003 06:05 pm, Tim Bray wrote: > Well, despite being a vociferous defender of UniodeWithBrackets, I can > see the necessity for the infoset, merely for the community of spec > writers. If you're describing something like schema or xpath or > whatever, it's just way easier to do it in terms of the data model than > in terms of syntax. Right... but FWIW. XPath, and Schema are really tied closely to the syntax of XML too. I don't think many many people would say that XPath is a globally applicable addressing mechanism for structured data (though I have in the past argued for something akin to exactly that)... only that it's good for XML. > I suspect that the infoset is of little interest to ordinary programmers > doing ordinary work, who will work either at the level of the syntax or > of some particular API. -Tim Right.
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