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Re: Processing instructions (was XSchema: Sections 5.0 and 5.1)

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:43:29 -0400

david@m... wrote:

> PI's provide a (slightly clumsy) method for adding new declaration
> types to XML without breaking existing parsers.  In general, I don't
> think that it's a good idea to use elements and attributes for
> declarations, since they represent the logical structure of the
> document itself.

An excellent point, which I was going to include but couldn't think
how to phrase.  Thank you.

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