Re: XML Infoset vs XML Tagged Text

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:38 PM 6/14/2002 -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> 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.

Some of us go so far as to consider the XML Infoset a harmful menace, period.

I'd avoid any language which appears to privilege the XML Infoset, and 
can't imagine why anyone would want to inject that into protocol discussion 
anyway.

As Tim put it:
> 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.

Precisely.

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue