The Infoset Pipeline begins
- An
XML Parser builds an Infoset from a character stream
- A streaming
parser gives only a limited view of it
- A
validating parser builds a richer Infoset than a non-validating one
- Defaulted values
- Whitespace
normalisation
- Ignorable
whitespace
- If a
document isn’t well-formed, or is invalid, or isn’t Namespace-conformant
- It doesn’t have
an Infoset!