Re: Issues and tentative consensus

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> 2.  Should MicroXML support the authoring of PHP?  From what I understand,
> <?PHP?> was introduced for XML's benefit exclusively.  If we don't
> allow PIs at all, we are out of luck with this: you won't be able to
> annotate a MicroXML document with PHP stuff and still treat it as a
> MicroXML document.  OTOH, that is equally true of HTML5.

Well, HTML 5 parsers can throw away processing instructions as if they
were comments, they don't do the Draconian thing.

Yes, you should be able to write PHP. I'm the one (I think) who first
mentioned <?php....?> here, but, I'd be happy to drop this as a use
case, as long as there's reasonable consensus.

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