RE: New draft of Elaborated Infosets document (xmlFunctions-34)

Henry,

In [2] is states:

        The default processing model question can be rephrased as
        "Is there an infoset other than the one produced by a
         conformant XML parser which can and should be defined?"

The embedded question implies that the *is* a (specified?) infoset that a "conformant XML" parser will produce (presumably from a given XML document).

Is there such a specification of the infoset produced by a "conformant" XML parser? If so, a reference would be helpful.

I suspect that there isn't otherwise I'd suspect that of itself that would be the answer to the default processing model question - that's certainly the answer I'd go for say wrt GRDDL - by defn it's something that ALL conformant XML parsers could produce.

Thanks.

Stuart
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[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/elabInfoset/

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> Further to discussion at the March 2007 f2f [1]. I've
> produced a new draft of _The elaborated infoset: A proposal_ [2].
>
> As several editorial notes therein suggest, I'm not at all
> sure how to integrate this into Web Architecture.  There are
> at least two (partially interdependent) questions this draft
> doesn't answer:
>
> 1) What is the role of the application in controlling the elaboration
>    process?
>
> 2) What is the right model for the relationship between elaboration,
>    understood as the specification/construction of an infoset, and
>    application semantics, particularly in the case of mixed namespace
>    documents?
>
> To illustrate the reason (1) is important, consider a bank
> transfer document, expressed in XML, and three XML applications:
>
>  a) An XML editor;
>  b) An XML validator (pick your favourite schema language);
>  c) An XML banking application.
>
> The editor probably wants the document _as is_, without  any
> elaboration.  The validator probably wants as much
> elaboration as possible (but really that's up to the user).
> The banking application may want some but not all of the
> document to be elaborated:  consider the case where its own
> banking markup semantics includes some form of encapsulation.
>  So the document can't be said to have _an_ elaborated
> infoset:  elaboration is in part controlled/parameterised by
> what the user of the document is _doing_ with it.
>
> The issue behind (2) is discussed at some length in Tim
> Berners-Lee's original thinking on this topic, as expressed
> in [3], particularly the sections entitled "Top-down
> Processing model" and "Software designs for top-down
> processing".  The granularity of the implied interaction in
> that discussion is much finer than that in the draft
> elaboration proposal.  It's not clear to me that a notion of
> elaborated _infoset_, as opposed to elaborated _infoitem_,
> has any utility if, for example, the possibility of embedding
> a fragment in language B inside a document in language B,
> where A and B have different requirements for quoting vs. elaboration.
>
> The interaction between the two questions arises as follows:
> are there actually any generic XML _applications_, that is,
> applications which process XML as XML, independently of its
> vocabulary-specific semantics, for which a
> non-application-specific notion of whole-document elaboration
> makes sense?  Possible candidates include validation and
> style/query processing.  The hard case for this that emerged
> in the f2f discussion [1] is that of a vocabulary-specific
> conditional construct with an XInclude inside a guarded
> branch, where the included material is a very large
> multimedia document access to which involves real cost to the user.
>
> This message is an invitation to open up discussion, since
> answers evidently are not being offered. . .
>
> ht
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2007/03/06-minutes#item10
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/elabInfoset/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/XML
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