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bryan rasmussen said: >> <quote> >> Actually, no: the XML declaration isn't a PI <they refer here to the >> formal spec/>. But in most cases it really doesn't make any difference >> whether it is or not, so feel free to look at it as one if you wish. >> </quote> > > I believe this is addressed to the mythical average developer who > cannot be counted on to understand the difference between these > things, pragmaticism is a wonderful tool for calming the average > developer. If you consider yourself to be mythical, please be so > calmed. This is a bit elitist, is not? >> <quote> >> Trying to get the text of the XML declaration from an XML parser. Some >> parsers erroneously treat the XML declaration as a PI, and will pass >> it on as if it were, but many will not. >> </quote> >> > > thus, because people sometimes do things incorrectly the incorrect way > is the correct way. We live in an imperfect world. Do you know? Moreover, i would add that whereas it is true that sometimes the cause of the trouble is on an (imperfect) developer, it is not less true that sometimes, the developer had *no option*; probably, because the formal spec done by a 'theoretician' was not implementable in practice. MathML is a good example. I have heard many developers claiming difficulties or imposibility to implement the formal spec in a _full_ and _consistent_ way and i got problems also in that way. My last notices is that even elementary stuff as <mi>sin</mi> will be promoted to radical change in next MathML 3 draft because initial design errors of the group did MathML 1.0. Therefore the spliting between 'correct' and 'incorrect people' is a bit more complex is being said here and now. > Bryan Rasmussen Juan R. Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
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