Re: Starting point

That would be incompatible with XML.

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:13 AM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> wrote:

> A little off the wall and probably dumb ... but .... just to make sure
> Is there any reason that <? xxx ?> has to be recognized as anything other
> than text ? That is, does it need to be part of the data model ?
> Could it not just be valid text content ?
> PHP wouldn't care ... other processors could look for <? xxx ?> within
> text nodes instead of expecting a PI node.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:liam@w3.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:05 PM
> > To: Jirka Kosek
> > Cc: John Cowan; James Clark; Andrew Welch; public-microxml
> > Subject: Re: Starting point
> >
> > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 23:42 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> > > On 25.7.2012 3:01, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > >
> > > > But, losing xml-stylesheet and <?php?> might be too big a price.
> > >
> > > I don't think that PHP is argument for preserving PIs.
> >
> > I'm more trying to make sure there's a complete perspective than arguing
> > a position - <?php...?> is widely used today, and that syntax was
> > introduced in fact for XML use.
> >
> >
> > > more complex scripts will step out from XML well-formdness anyway.
> >
> > Also often true.
> >
> > On the other hand, <?publisher page-break?> is also a strong use case.
> > But could be equally well done with a comment.
> >
> > Liam
> > >
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