Re: Are PIs allowed? from Jeremy H. Griffith on 2012-09-04 (public-microxml@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy@omsys.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:53:29 -0500
To: public-microxml@w3.org
Message-ID: <22ra48p186oi2sf93qo1eau6k129pdnsad@4ax.com>

On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:33:24 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

>4. Are PIs allowed?  This is the most controversial remaining item.
>Everyone seems to agree that limiting them to start-tag format would be
>a Good Thing.  I see three positions:
>
>    A:  No PIs.
>
>    B:  No PIs except in the prolog.
>
>    C: PIs everywhere, as in XML.

I still feel strongly that C is necessary, and
that, unlike comments, PIs should be included 
in the data model.  Our DITA products count on
this, and I see no reason that other formats
like MicroXML would be different.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy@omsys.com>
   DITA2Go site:  http://www.dita2go.com/

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