Re: XML Infoset vs XML Tagged Text

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Ransom wrote:
> I believe the most important use of XML in the IETF guidelines
> is the modelling of data as an XML Infoset.  Serialization of XML as tagged
> text is of limited value.  

This discussion's been over this ground, but for the record, just let me 
say that I and many others in the XML community disagree profoundly, and 
feel that the single most important value-add from XML is in its 
well-defined and highly-interoperable syntactic expression.

People who are building protocols must of necessity define the bits on 
the wire.  XML is designed as a bits-on-the-wire format.  You really 
don't want to micromanage what kind of API or programming practice the 
endpoints of the protocol use, just what they send to each other. 
That's angle-brackets and characters. -Tim