Re: Processing instructions

On 27 July 2012 01:11, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
>
>> Yeah, that's one approach for other such use-cases as well (such as
>> pagination).  George and others might have other objections to PI/comment
>> unification, but for me I'm leaning towards seeing comments almost as C
>> does, as just a noisy form of whitespace.  This usage would imbue them with
>> much more fundamental significance. I guess PIs are analogous to #pragmas.
>
> So they are.  If we wanted to unify comments and PIs, we could say that
> a comment of the form <--? ... --> was reserved for PI-like use.
> That doesn't help with delivering to browsers, though.

Do you see browsers as a recipient of MicroXML John?

As with stylesheet usage I'd prefer to see the browser receiving something
transformed for that environment?

regards


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