On Apr 12, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> What sorts of XML documents don't have infosets?
There are two defensible answers to that question:
1. all XML documents have infosets, since the infoset is a theoretical
construct reverse-engineered onto the XML syntax, which all XML docs
have.
2. no XML documents have infosets, since the infoset is an abstraction
as opposed to the real bytes which make up an XML doc.
Two interesting questions are "Which specifications make no use of the
Infoset abstraction" (answer: I could go with "a few" or "too many")
and "Which applications make no use of the Infoset abstraction (answer:
"most"). -Tim
