On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:48 am, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>  Argggh.... We have a real problem then and
>  I'm not sure how to describe it except other
>  than to talk about infoset services.  In other
>  words, how do I know what an XML parser does
>  in terms of real code?  It would seem to me
>  as others (eg, Rick Jeliffe) has suggested,
>  that is the problem to be worked before the
>  W3C launches into a subset activity. 

I think this is an important area to look into, but I haven't seen any way to 
really resovlve the issue. Applications are specific to a problem domain, and 
more often than not, so it the data they manipulate.

>  Otherwise, XML interop is a
>  myth beyond knowing a file is well-formed.

That's the state of the world... perhaps a bit better because we do have a few 
standardized API's. I'm not sure that can ever truly change without a 
paradigm shift in programming.


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