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At 01:10 PM 3/14/97 -0600, Len Bullard wrote: >Eve L. Maler wrote: >> >> I've also been beating the drum on the WG list about how our PIs should >> have "GIs" as well as "attribute specs," so I'd prefer to see <?XML >> stylesheet att1="val1" att2="val2"... ?>. This way, "<?XML" targets the PI >> so that it will be processed by an XML-aware processor, and the rest >> identifies the semantics of the instruction. > >This looks weirdly like DTD/instance built into the XML instance. >So, XML then defines an application inside the instance? > >I understand it because this is how IADS and IDE/AS did links >originally. However, it created interoperability problems >and does to this day. What is the difference between this >and a tag bag of empty elements included at the top of a DTD? > >len The difference is that, by convention, you're making PI markup available that's available to every document and to every *location* in a document if necessary, no matter what its DTD (and no matter whether it even has one). It just happens to look suspiciously like a start-tag, which may be helpful to any software that has to parse the PI string. I don't think links in general should be done this way, but I do believe in PIs being used for, uh, instructions to processors. (In other words, I'm not 100% against PIs, as some people are.) In particular, I'm starting to get very fond of PIs for anything that has to be specified per entity. Eve xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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