• To: "Liam Quin" <liam@w...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:31:08 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Noise-free Complex Systems

> I view the XML Information Set spec as defining a vocabulary for
> other specs to use.  It's not a serialization spec.  The extent

Well, it certainly wouldn't be a serialization spec.  Many people,
however, treat it as a data model spec.  I agree with your point that
this was not necessarily the original intent, though.  OTOH, the
treatment of XML as a data model is now well-ingrained in W3C specs.
XSLT 1.0 and XSD both rely on the infoset-as-data model, and XQuery
defines a new take on XML data model.  You can't cause the problems to
vanish by declaring that infoset is not a data model, unless you also
get rid of XSLT and XSD.

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