Re: Processing instructions (was XSchema: Sections 5.0 and 5.1)

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:43:29 -0400


david@megginson.com wrote:

> PI's provide a (slightly clumsy) method for adding new declaration
> types to XML without breaking existing parsers. In general, I don't
> think that it's a good idea to use elements and attributes for
> declarations, since they represent the logical structure of the
> document itself.

An excellent point, which I was going to include but couldn't think
how to phrase. Thank you.

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