- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:00:14 -0500
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren scripsit: > It had not occurred to me that we can't even agree as to whether > > # Content-Type:text/xml > # > # <test:test/> > > is XML or not (I say not). Sad. Well, yes, it is sad. But if you say that something is "not XML" that is plainly a well-formed XML document, then we are going to disagree. Humanity can't even agree that the world is round: see <http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm>. By the same token, everything is uncontroversial until someone controverts it, and then it becomes a subject of controversy. It's true that your document has no infoset (by fiat) and therefore cannot be represented using the XDM. It's also true that some XML-consuming applications will reject it. But few XML-consuming applications will accept just any and every well-formed XML document: most of them are considerably more picky. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof Deity donated dentition; deity'll donate doughnuts --English version by Muke Tever God gave gums; God'll give granary --Version by Mat McVeagh
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