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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Common XML (was Re: Document Feature Requirements)
 I've noticed a couple of posts which basically equate comments and PIs with XML elements. Is this really a common reasoning behind the work at SML-DEV? (Perhaps I shouldn't use the word "common", in light of the new nomenclature...) I'm trying to understand the reasoning, a little bit. I've seen people mentioning (perhaps not explicitly) that when you put a PI into a document, it may not make it through round-tripping, and only certain applications would know how to handle it; but that's the POINT. A PI has a PITarget - an application that knows what this PI means, and what it's supposed to do with it. Other applications don't (or shouldn't) need to know about that PI. (I'd also like to know why "round tripping" is of such importance to Common XML, and what is meant by the term in this context.) Along the same lines, people have worried that round-tripping documents might lose comments, but again, that's fine. I don't think treating XML Comments as "comments" is just "attaching semantics"; that's what comments *are*. They're human-readable information which is inserted into the document, and are not part of the document itself. If Common XML is advocating that you don't do things like <!--bgcolor='whatever'--> because it's not really part of the document, then I'm right there with the SML-DEV developers. But if they're saying that you should instead include comment information in elements, so that they can make it through this nebulous "round tripping" concept, then they've lost me, because comments are not supposed to be part of the document, and we shouldn't be treating them as such. David Hunter MobileQ david.hunter@m... http://www.mobileq.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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