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• From: Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.paranoid@g...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:56:22 -0600
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• Reply-to: Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.paranoid@g...>

Kurt,


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:52:23 -0800, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...> wrote:
> I would be VERY careful about playing with preprocessors. I think this
> was one of the problems that caused problems for both SGML and XML in
> the first place. I have an intrinsic distrust of processing
> instructions, as they by their very nature reduce portability of XML.
> This has always been something that's bothered me about Microsoft
> markup in particular - they LIKE PIs, even as the rest of the world
> seems to have moved away from them.
> 

    Can you elaborate a bit more about this? What are the problems
that you are referring to? Also, I dont understand how PI's can reduce
portability. It seems to me that PI's are intended to achieve the
opposite effect : if additional knowledge (than is visible to a basic
XML processor) is visible to an XML application specific processor,
then the PI serves as a signal to activate the application level
processor. This doesnt change any the semantics of the data w.r.t.
non-application specific data.

Thanks,
Kenneth

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