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At 10:12 PM 12/3/99 -0800, Don Park wrote: >Walter, > >Could you elaborate your decision to use PI rather than >element(s)? Lars did a pretty good job, but I'll elaborate anyway. This is information for a specific kind of XML processor (an indexing robot), but it is not specific to the document type. So we need a mechanism that applies to any XML document and can be automatically ignored by non-robot processors. A PI is an exact fit. Even the name is right -- it is an instruction to the robot about how to process it. The alternative, adding an element to every DTD in the universe, with the corresponding breakage to every processor that reads those DTDs, is just too awful to contemplate. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood wunder@i... wunder@b... (home) http://software.infoseek.com/ http://www.best.com/~wunder/ 1-408-543-6946 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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