[cellml-discussion] CellML terminology:distinguishingCellMLmodels from the XML in which they are represented

[David Nickerson]

Andrew Miller wrote:
> David Nickerson wrote:
>> Andrew Miller wrote:
>>   
>>> ...
>>> How about CellML Infoset, CellML Model, and Mathematical Model?
>>>     
>> That sounds good to me. While I guess this use of infoset is pretty 
>> common in the XML world, it might be useful to refer to the CellML XML 
>> Infoset? Or is it safe to assume that people reading the specification 
>> have some familiarity with XML concepts?
>>   
> I am not sure that having the words XML aid interpretation. Also, there 
> has been some work to create alternative, non-XML serialisations of the 
> infoset - see Fast Infoset for example, which is on an ITU-T 
> standardisation track. We are not talking specifically about the XML 
> serialisation in the places where XML Infoset is mentioned (although of 
> course XML serialisation is the standard for CellML, anything else would 
> be an extension). However, given that the definition of CellML Infoset 
> would reference the XML Information Sets specification, I am not sure 
> that we really need to repeat XML everywhere.

OK - makes sense to me.