Re: Starting point

On 3 August 2012 02:17, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:
> That would be incompatible with XML.

Query 'incompatible' James?
  It would be processed differently, but that doesn't make it incompatible?
I don't think there is (as yet) any requirement to process all tokens
identically to XML?

Taking PI's out of the data model would make the parse different, no more.

regards



>
> 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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>> > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
>> >
>>
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