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Peter Stark wrote: > How do I guarantee that the target name of my Processing Instructions (PI) > are unique? It's probably out of the scope of the XML spec. to specify, but > are there any general guidelines for naming PIs? Yes. The XML Rec specifically allows you to create NOTATION declarations that map the targets of PIs to URIs or FPIs, thus: <DOCTYPE whatever [ <!NOTATION myapp SYSTEM "http://my.domain.com/docs/myapp/index.html">]> ... <?myapp do something?> Then your application can match not on the name, which can be different in different documents, but on the consistent and unique URI. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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