• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
• Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:05:01 +0000

 At the lowest level, we can take this grammar
> as a data model *of the stream of bytes*.
> 

But you can't take it as a model of the information conveyed by the document, because the XML rec clearly says that some grammatical distinctions, for example the order of attributes, do not convey information.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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