John Cowan writes:
>  I'd like to launch a discussion about solving the infoset
>  serialization problem once and for all, for every kind of infoset. 
>  As a trial balloon, I propose SLAIX, which stands for "serializing in
>  Layman normal form any infoset as XML."

Layman normal form?  As in Andrew Layman?  This certainly isn't meant
for the layman.


>  The document
>  
>    <book>
>      <author sort="brownjohn">John Brown</author>
>      <title>My Life</title>
>          </book>
>  
>  SLAIXifies somewhat as follows:
>  
>  <slaix:slaix slaix:xmlns="..."
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset"> 
>    <document slaix:id="root" children="e1" document_element="e1" 
>  base_URI="..."/>
>    <element slaix:id="e1" local_name="book" children="e2 e3"
>        attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>        base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
>    <element slaix:id="e2" local_name="author" children="c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 
>  c6 c7 c8 c9 c10"
>        attributes="a1" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>        base_URI="..." parent="book"/>
>    <element slaix:id="e3" local_name="title" children="c11 c12 c13 c14 
>  c15 c16 c17"
>        attributes="" namespace_attributes="" in-scope_namespaces="n1"
>        base_URI="..." parent="root"/>
>    <attribute slaix:id="a1" local_name="sort" 
>  normalized_value="brownjohn"
>        specified="true" attribute_type="CDATA" owner_element="e2"/>
>    <namespace slaix:id="n1" prefix="xml"
>        namespace_name="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"/>
>    <character slaix:id="c1" character_code="74" 
>  element_content_whitespace
>        = "false" parent="e2"/>
>    <!-- boring character elements omitted -->
>  </slaix:slaix>

Sorry, John, but that's not only repulsive but it encourages the piling
on ever more crap into the infoset.  A more convincing Infoset
serialization for that document would look like:

   <book> 
      <author sort="brownjohn"> John Brown</author>
      <title> My Life</title>
   </book> 
    
Or were you trying to make that point through blistering self-parody?
It's not April, so it's hard to tell.  But if you wanted rejection out
of hand followed by cackling hysterical laughter, you got it.

Yecch.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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