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Re: CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:11:21 -0500

Lauren Wood replied to me:

> > The DOM has a ProcessingInstruction node, though pseudo-attribute parsing
> > is not performed.
> 
> This would be a possibility, but this reading of the content of a PI
> isn't in the XML spec, so the DOM WG didn't want to add
> semantics that weren't in the spec. So we stuck to the simple
> target+data approach, at least for Level 1.

In the words of Hyman Kaplan:  "I described.  I did not condemn."

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