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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alaric Snell wrote: > Quoting David Brownell <david-b@p...>: > > > One > > hopes > > that the fix still facilitates significant amounts of work being done by > > stream > > transforms. CPP has done #includes as stream operations for decades, > > and I'm not sure I see why doing it in XML ought to be different. > > I always that that XML including would "obviously" be a processing instruction > issue, myself. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! > <?xml-include uri="http://www.foo.bar.com/fiddle.xml#...xpointer or whatever..." > ?> > > - if not, then what ARE processing instructions for? PIs are for passing procedural instructions through XML to a post-processor. They are not intended for consumption and action by the XML processor itself in any way that would affect the integrity of the document. For example you can encode a forced line-break in a title that you know will be required when the document is typeset but which you don't wish to hard-code wrt the document structure: <title>How I Made <?LaTeX \\?>A Million Dollars</title> ///Peter
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