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


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  • From: ak.miller at auckland.ac.nz (Andrew Miller)
  • Subject: [cellml-discussion] CellML terminology:distinguishingCellMLmodels from the XML in which they are represented
  • Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:03:24 +1300
David Nickerson wrote:
> 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.
>

I have changed this and pushed it to my publicly visible version of the
CellML specification (available from my git repository or for casual
viewing at
http://www.cellml.org/Members/miller/draft-normative-spec/toplevel.xhtml).

Best regards,
Andrew



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