Re: [xml-dev] Does the XML syntax have an underlying data model?

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Re: [xml-dev] Does the XML syntax have an underlying data model?
On 04/16/2016 07:52 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Some of us still prefer to ignore the Infoset entirely.

I actually cannot recall ever consciously having used it, or needed to.

But then, I have always been rather uncertain about what a data model
for XML would _do_.

On 04/16/2016 08:08 PM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
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> Wow! That is mind-blowing.

Not really, if you look at the history which preceded XML.

> Any additions, changes, comments?

Many people use XML syntax for modelling their data (I'm not arguing for
or against this, just stating a fact). This is hard to achieve if you
restrict the models you can create.

///Peter