well-structured? was: RE: what "huge problem" with XML Base? [was: red/green XML]

• From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
• Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:10:01 -0400
• To: "John Cowan" <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
• Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <005f01bfd025$7cb1d5e0$1b19da18@ne.mediaone.net>

John Cowan wrote:
>
> You are using the word "well-formed" in the sense of "conforming to
> the Namespace Rec".  That will confuse people greatly.
>

I've been considering this today, and in so doing reread the XML Infoset REC
where it states that a document not conforming to the Namespace REC does not
have an infoset.

The problem is that there is no good term to describe such a situation. I
used "well-formed" thinking that this was the closest term. "Conforming to
the Namespace Rec" just doesn't cut it as a descriptive term.

May I suggest the term "well-structured" to define an XML document which has
an infoset?



Jonathan Borden

Received on Tuesday, 6 June 2000 22:23:02 UTC