>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@[...].com] 
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:21 AM
>  To: xml-dev@[...].org
>  
>  jcowan@[...].com (John Cowan) writes:
>  ><span tone="huffy">I suppose you think it's just an accident 
>  that the 
>  >Infoset happens to talk about elements, attributes, processing 
>  >instructions, namespaces, etc.?</span>
>  
>  The part that amazes me is people who want to use that 
>  particular abstraction to describe things other than markup!

Why are you amazed? The abstraction works well for defining structured
and semi-structured data plus the proliferation of tools that exist for
manipulating and otherwise processing instances of the abstraction are
quite useful to many producers and consumers of data. 

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