Re: <?access-control?> processing

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:34:32 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>> Am I missing something or is the spec lacking a description on how to 
>> parse the pseudo-attributes in the <?access-control?> PI?
>>
>> I could have sworn it was there before but I can't find it now.
> 
> It's part of section 4.3 where it is said to be parsed identically to 
> <?xml-stylesheet?>. That specification is however slightly unclear. 
> Simon Pieters developed a proposal to address that problem and provide a 
> generic algorithm for parsing processing instructions with 
> pseudo-attributes[1], but it's not very clear how to proceed on that 
> within the W3C.

It's not getting the pseudo-attribute value out of the PI that is 
unspecified, it's parsing the value of that PI. I see now that it does 
say that the value is a space-separated list of access-items, and 
further specifies in step 5 of section 5.2.1 what to do with these items.

/ Jonas