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


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  • From: david.nickerson at nus.edu.sg (David Nickerson)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] CellML terminology:distinguishingCellMLmodels from the XML in which they are represented
  • Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:46:05 +0800
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.


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