- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:01:15 +0200
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > 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. It wouldn't be harder to do, people would just disagree on what one needs to retain from XML and transfer into other syntaxes. To the degree that interoperability may also include the ability to convert losslessly, data models help in that they tell you what you may lose. That being said, syntax is indeed at the heart of interoperability. The rest only helps. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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