On 25 Feb 2003 at 10:24, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>  
>  > -----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. 

True. People have been talking about using those concepts to 
represent whatever data they had for some time; I remember talking to 
people about it back in very early DOM days (1997). Tree-processing 
concepts can be used for things other than XML ;-) 

Lauren



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