• From: Jason Diamond <jason@i...>
• To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>,"Devlin, Kurt" <Kurt.Devlin@w...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:06:06 -0700

> You could cleanly layer a syntax like "$name;" on top of any
> XML processor.  In fact, it'd be simple enough to implement
> some sort of SAX pipeline component that'd postprocess all
> attribute values and character content to substitute "$name;"
> values.  The cost would be an extra scan over most characters
> in the input data, but in terms of layering it's clean.

Why not use processing instructions instead? Isn't this the kind of
application they're supposed to be used for?

Jason.

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