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

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John Cowan writes:

> Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) scripsit:
>
>> Is there such a specification of the infoset produced by a "conformant"
>> XML parser? If so, a reference would be helpful.
>
> The Infoset WG tried to write one until we discovered such minor
> embarrassments as that a conformant parser is required to notify its
> caller about attributes, but not about elements.  So we gave up on that
> and just talked about the infoset of a document, which a parser may or
> may not report in full.

Actually, I think the Infoset spec. actually does at least come close
to an answer.  It [1] says [emphasis added]:

  "*XML Versions*

  "Different versions of the XML specification may specify different
   parsing rules. _The information set of an XML document is defined to
   be_ the one obtained by parsing it according to the rules of the
   specification whose version corresponds to that of the document. A
   document which does not specify a version number is considered to
   have version 1.0. If an XML processor accepts a document with a
   version number that it does not understand, it will not necessarily
   be able to produce the correct information set."

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#intro
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