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Re: Processing instruction guidelines


tag balancing software
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.
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