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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...] > Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 17:48 > To: Alessandro Triglia > Cc: amyzing@t...; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Re: Non-infoset > > > Alessandro Triglia wrote: > > Entities are in the non-infoset. I have asked how many > creators of > XML documents need them. If they are a good number, then the > infoset is > important. > > And I have answered. Everyone who authors an XML document by > hand needs > them. Sooner or later one will need to escape one or more of the > characters ', ", <, > or &. > > What, you want a count of the number of people who authors by > hand? Certainly not. I am trying to get a feel of the existing views on how much relevance the non-infoset part of an XML document has for the creator of the document (be it a program or a person). I have often heard the comment that the infoset is not important because nobody uses it except spec writers. I am trying to understand whether "nobody uses it" means "people typically need to express more than the infoset contains" or whether it means "people don't use the word 'infoset'". > You > don't think it's a big number? I don't get your point, nor why you > started this unnecessary squabble. See above. I know for sure that there are many applications that don't care about defining entities and referencing those defined entities, or that are happy with either attribute delimiter, and so on. I would conclude that those applications would be happy with exchanging infosets instead of XML 1.0 documents. I am trying to determine what is the weight of those applications overall. Alessandro > > Bob > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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