XML Information Set Requirements, W3C Note 18-February-1999

Fri Feb 19 22:29:59 GMT 1999

I think this issue needs to be addressed. It may be the case that the stream contains, not one, but many documents, where each information "packet" is a document. Or perhaps the afore-mentioned notion of "document fragment" is introduced, and each packet is a fragment. But it will definitely be necessary to support this kind of processing in some manner. 

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John Cowan
Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: XML Information Set Requirements, W3C Note 18-February-1999

Nathan Kurz wrote:

> And if the stream is continuous (for example, an XML
> stock ticker) even the concept of a well-formed stream seems tenuous.

It's not clear that XML supports infinitely long streams (where the
end-tag of the document element is *never* reached).

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