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• Subject: Re: Processing instruction guidelines
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:35:42 -0500
• In-reply-to: <37198796063.20030123160719@j...>

jeni@j... (Jeni Tennison) writes:
>Are there any other good uses for PIs? Does anyone have examples of
>*inappropriate* uses? I have the impression that some people think
>that any use of PIs is inappropriate, but I'm not sure what the
>argument is?

I used PIs a few times to demonstrate the forcible accomodation of
overlapping markup within well-formed XML, but that never even struck me
as kosher.

Fortunately these folks at lmnl.org have found better ways around that
set of problems!

(And I need to find more time to think about LMNL and related topics!)

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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