Essential XML: Beyond Markup

Chapter 2. Programming XML

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The previous chapter described the XML Information Set, which is the normative definition of an XML document's abstract data model. The chapter presented a variety of example XML documents and document fragments in their serialized form as part of the discussion of various Infoset information items. One reason this approach was used was to avoid the complete alienation of readers already familiar with XML's serialization format. The primary reason, however, was to demonstrate that there is an isomorphic translation between the data model of the Infoset and the serialization format known as XML 1.0 + namespaces.

This chapter builds on this translation ...