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At 8:53 AM -0500 1/24/03, G. Ken Holman wrote: >My editing environment includes a spell-check facility. The fact >that a word needs to be ignored because it isn't in the spell-check >dictionary isn't an aspect of the information in my document: I will >still format the document or process the document regardless of >whether the word is spelled correctly or not. But, during editing >time, it *is* important to escape the word explicitly so that I get >a clean spell check. So I use <?no-spell start?> and <?no-spell >end?> around the text that isn't to be checked ... and the editing >environment protects such sequences. I can see why you do this, and I'm not sure I've got a good alternative. Nonetheless I'm deeply bothered by processing instructions with extension; i.e. beginnings and ends. Such PIs can cross element boundaries. For example, <para> That is a <?no-spell start?> tres <em>chic<?no-spell end?> dress</em>. </para> With care, I think SAX could handle that. I'm not sure anything else could. Also, what happens is you leave off the end-instruction? or forget the start instruction? There are reasons parsers check for tag balancing. This side steps that in a way I'm not at all comfortable with. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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