Rick Jelliffe <> writes:
> And the XML Information Set document tried to make explicit what was
> implicit in the XML spec and the WG/IG discussions: I think John
> tried hard to capture the concensus. That Xml information could be
> considered a rooted directed labelled graph with unordered
> attribute-value pairs and thrownaway bits like insignificant
> whitespace was bleeding obvious: however 'obvious' is not good
> enough: some things needed to be spelled out better than the Xml
> spec did.
Exactly so. My personal take on where this leads is recorded here,
vintage 2001:
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/XML_MetaArchitecture.html
(TL;DR: "Angle brackets and equal signs are just an Infoset’s way of
perpetuating itself")
ht
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