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Re: Choosing a target name for a processing instruction

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• Subject: Re: Choosing a target name for a processing instruction
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:42:19 +1000 (EST)
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> Michael Good wrote:
>
>> Well, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I tried to use
>>
>>  ProcessingInstruction pi = doc.createProcessingInstruction("feature",
>> "");
>>
>> the result was
>>
>> <?feature ?>
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> <?feature?>
>>

Why not just provide a proper target, such as
 <?MusicXML1.3 feature?>

That may overcome that particular application's problem, and is better
markup because it indicates that the PI has to do with retrofitting new
features on an old document type.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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    • From: "Michael Good" <musicxml@g...>
  • Re: Choosing a target name for a processing instruction
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>

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