- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:19:55 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 05:40 PM 12/11/96 EST, lee@sq.com wrote: >There is no use (as far as I can see) for PUBLIC "string" being in the >XML spec if XML systems all ignore it. It just clutters the language >(like the - - omissible tag parameters, or "<!DOCTYPE X SYSTEM>"). XML systems will not "all" ignore it. Some XML systems will ignore it. Just as some XML systems will ignore my organization's or application's processing instructions. Nobody seems to have a problem with processing instructions, so why are public identifiers any more or less dangerous/mysterious/useless? For now, PUBLIC identifiers are "addressing processing instructions." At some point in the future they will be standardized, just as some processing instruction syntaxes are standardized (e.g. <?XML ). These hooks give us room to experiment in the present, and room to expand the standard in the future. Paul Prescod
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