- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 02 Feb 2002 16:14:20 -0600
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, XML Infoset Comments <www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org>
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 13:36, Tim Bray wrote: > The infoset recommendation is slightly inconsistent with the XML > recommendation, in that the infoset rec says "There is a comment information > item for each XML comment in the original document, except for those > appearing in the DTD (which are not represented)." while the XML > recommendation says "an XML processor may, but need not, make it > possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments.". > > This seems serious to me, the infoset seems to be requiring > behavior of software which a reasonable reader of the XML 1.0 > would not expect. -Tim The comment is there whether the software reports it or not. There's lots of stuff in the infoset that processors aren't required to report. I don't see this as a problem. "The XML Information Set does not require or favor a specific interface or class of interfaces. This specification presents the information set as a modified tree for the sake of clarity and simplicity, but there is no requirement that the XML Information Set be made available through a tree structure; other types of interfaces, including (but not limited to) event-based and query-based interfaces, are also capable of providing information conforming to the XML Information Set." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-infoset-20011024/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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