DOM Last call review of Infoset 1.0

Following
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2001JanMar/0058.html
here is the review of the DOM WG.

1- 

The following paragraph in the Infoset specification suggests that the DOM
Level 1 childNodes attribute is not well specified.

[[[

Note: The XML Information Set does not include a [children] property for
attributes. The childNodes attribute provided by the Document Object Model,
Level 1 Core Recommendation [DOM] is not completely and consistently specified;
it cannot be the normalized value since it may contain entity references, but
if it is the unnormalized value it does not contain the information about
character references needed for normalization. Furthermore, DOM implementations
vary in their interpretation of the attribute. The XML Core Working Group has
decided that it is therefore not useful to specify a corresponding property in
the XML Information Set.

]]]

-- XML Information Set
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-infoset-20010202/#infoitem.attribute
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:18:31 GMT

We encourage the Infoset specification to be based on the DOM Level 2 Core
instead (see also [1]). Not being able to expose the child nodes of an
attribute will result in a partial exposure of the entity start marker
information items.

2-

[[[
Though feedback is solicited on the entire specification, there
is one area where the WG did not have consensus and on which feedback
is particularly desired.  Sections 2.16 and 2.17 of the spec define
cdata start and end marker information items.  The WG could not reach
consensus on whether these two info items should be left in the spec
or deleted from it. 
]]]

-- chairs@w3.org from January to March 2001: XML Information Set e
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2001JanMar/0058.html
Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:24:47 GMT

We strongly encourage the WG to keep the cdata start and end marker
information items in the Infoset document since these informations are exposed
in the DOM.

3-

The Infoset document doesn't say anything about non well formed entities in
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-infoset-20010202/#infoitem.entity.unparsed


Philippe
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-dom-ig/1999Oct/0051.html

Received on Thursday, 22 February 2001 12:37:28 UTC