• From: <juanrgonzaleza@c...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:36:27 -0700 (PDT)

David Carlisle said:
>
>> ...
>>  <?xml-myTargetHere ...?>
>>
>>  even if formally that is not a PI.
>
> No. That is a processing instruction.
>
>> Note: Carlisle is right in that formally PI are defined without the
>> xml start. Therefore, the xml declaration or the stylesheet call are
>> pseudo-PIs.
> No. The xml declaration is not a processing instruction, the
> xml-stylesheet processing instruction is a processing instruction not  a
> "pseudo-PI" (which concept doesn't exist in xml)
>
> David

Right, the <?xml-myTargetHere ...?> is a full PI as is also the stylesheet
processing intruction.

I agree that concept of pseudo-PI does not exists on the xml spec. But I
can talk of pseudo-PI:

"An XML declaration (pseudo-PI)..."

[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla's_DOCTYPE_sniffing]

Juan R.

Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)

• References:
  • processing instruction with "xml" target
    • From: Ari Krupnik <ari@c...>
  • Re: processing instruction with 'xml' target
    • From: <juanrgonzaleza@c...>
  • Re: processing instruction with 'xml' target
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>