Re: ACTION NW xmlChunk-44: Chunk of XML - Canonicalization and equality

/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> writes:
|
|> I don't see why the comparison function should be doing validity
|> checking. You have an infoset. An infoset is a bag of properties. I
|> don't care where you got it from or how you constructed it.
|
| I absolutely agree -- you misunderstood one aspect of my email, see below.
|
|> | I hope that's not the answer, in which case I'd be interested not only
|> | in a specific explanation of why the [in-scope namespaces] EII
|> | property was not included, but also in the more general question of
|> | the implicit suggestion above that "Everyone knows what 'well-formed'
|> | means when applied to infosets" and "It doesn't make sense to define
|> | equivalence such that a well-formed infoset can be equivalent to a
|> | non-well-formed infoset."
|>
|> I hope my explanation above goes some way to expressing how I feel
|> about the answer to those questions.
|
| Not really -- you haven't explained why it's OK for two infosets to be
| equivalent despite one being 'well-formed' and the other not -- I like
| to think of members of equivalence classes as being inter-substitable
| for most important purposes, and serialisability is pretty
| important. . .

Unless the infoset you're serializing was constructed by an XML parser
From a serialized document and has been unchanged since its
construction, I think it would be poor design for a serializer to
assume that the [version] property on the document information item
was any more than a suggestion.

| This is _not_ to say that the equivalence test should check some
| definition of well-formedness, but rather that all (most) information
| item properties on which well-formedness depends should be included in
| the domain of the equivalence test.

And I think that the version property would overly constrain the test.

I think "<Xfoo/>" and "<Xfoo/>" are the same even if "X" is not a name
start character in a 1.0 document and the infoset for the first
occurance of "<Xfoo/>" in this sentence is labeled (incorrectly) as a
1.0 document.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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