• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: RE: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:13:57 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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At 1:31 PM -0800 1/13/04, Joshua Allen wrote:


>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.


True of XSD, not true of XSLT. XSLT predates the Infoset by a couple 
of years, and defines its own data model which is similar to but in 
some important ways not identical to the Infoset.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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