XML Information Set (XML Infoset) - goals

XML Infoset 2nd Edition W3C Recommendation First published on 24 October 2001, revised 4 February 2004, John Cowan, Richard Tobin, http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/

Infoset describes "what all info can we get from a node (element, document, attribute...)"

In other words: an application should not rely on any other info, such as attribute order etc.

Any well-formed XML document conformant to XML Namespaces has its Infoset.