• From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:36:09 +0000

Hi Folks,

This document [1] defines JSON documents this way:

A JSON document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/json media type.

Would it be correct to define XML documents in an analogous way:

An XML document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/xml media type.

Two More Questions:

1. What is an "information resource"?

2. The parenthetical remark seems to imply that an information resource is a "series of octets". Is an information resource a series of octets?

/Roger

[1] https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html#name-json-document

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