AW: 4. Are PIs allowed?

When I first heard about microXML I was pretty excited because I thought all the things that you are supposed to do in XML would be enforced by microXML. My first thought was "unabusable XML". Now following this list it seems like people want to have microXML but don't want to lose any of the possibilities from XML. If I don't wan't to lose the "freedom" of XML then why would I consider another standard?

Keeping that in mind and seeing how often PIs are abused in the company I work for and how much trouble it gives me daily I'd really like to see PIs being restricted. 
For example I could imagine only allowing PIs on the root-level and not nested inside the whole structure. This way Programs could still get the information they might need but users are less likely to abuse PIs to hold content that would be better held inside elements. 

Just my 2 cents :-)


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Von: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 05. September 2012 10:44
An: public-microxml@w3.org
Betreff: Re: 4. Are PIs allowed?

On 04/09/2012 05:01, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan 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 think they should be allowed and should not be in the data model.
>
>


It's not perfect but I think I am coming to this view as well (which 
basically also aligns with html5 "bogus comment" usage.)  Allowing it in 
the syntax allows micro-xml editing tools to create documents using 
<?xml-stylesheet or <?php or whatever which is possibly a good thing, 
even if it takes a full xml processing system to process the PIs.

David


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