- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:37:56 -0400
- To: Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 12:51 PM -0400 10/22/03, Tyler Close wrote: >Ok, but does the infoset hinder XML's interoperability? Your >current text suggests that a data model hinders interoperability. Most definitely it does. Witness the broad variety of efforts to produce incompatible syntaxes on top of the infoset, both binary and otherwise. If XML were seen as pure syntax, this would be harder to do, and more people would stick with real, interoperable XML syntax. XInclude is another effort that's been excessively hindered by defining itself in terms of infoset rather than syntax. It enables the creation of infosets that have no corresponding syntaxx representation. Bleah. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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