Re: Processing instructions

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 11:08 +0700, James Clark wrote:
>
> > If PIs are not in the MicroXML data model, then that implies, in my view,
> > that normal (non-markup sensitive) applications SHOULD NOT act on PIs.
>  But
> > that is clearly not what we want. For example, we would want a browser to
> > act on an xml-stylesheet PI.
>
> I don't really see this as any different from wanting a browser to act
> on commented-out JavaScript or CSS, and
> <style type="text/css"><!--
>  .. .
> --></style>
> is actually fairly common practice and works (the CSS is intepreted).
>
> Whether that is good and clean is a question only in a world of
> speculation (as T S Eliot might've said).


It's about as far from good and clean as anything can be.

James