Re: [xml-dev] The supersetting has begun [Was Re: Opaque data, XML, and SOAP]

At 4:09 PM +0100 2/27/03, Robin Berjon wrote:


>You will certainly have followed this permathread long enough to 
>notice that I've stated a dozen times that "Binary XML" and all 
>variations on it are language abuses and that "Binary Infosets" is 
>imho much more appropriate. The PSVI is one kind of Infoset.

Actrually, I don't think so. A PSVI is not one kind of Infoset, at 
least if by Infoset you're referring to the thing described by the 
XML Information Set specification. A PSVI includes an Infoset but 
there's more to it than that, specifically types and validity 
information. By analogy, a laptop computer is not a kind of CPU even 
though it contains a CPU. A PSVI is not a kind of infoset  even 
though it contains an Infoset.
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