Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun

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Re: [xml-dev] The subsetting has begun
On Monday 24 February 2003 05:12 pm, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> Future versions of XML that don't make the infoset a first class
> consideration are refusing to learn from history. For many people who
> use XML, the syntax is incidental but the data model is not.

In what problem domain? When someone sees

   XML A -> processor XML A'

how can they tell that the transformation occured at an infoset level, or at 
the syntax level?

There are arguably applications where *an* infoset/data model is necessary. 
XML repositories spring to mind as being a good one