Re: B.4 Drop comments, PIs in mixed content?

On Sat, 12 Oct 96 15:06:14 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen
<U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU> wrote:

>On 16 October 1996, the ERB will vote to decide the following question.
>A straw poll indicates the question needs further discussion in the work
>group.
>
>B.4 Should XML forbid comments and processing instructions in mixed
>content, as a way of simplifying RE handling (7.6)?

Yes.

In fact, XML should forbid PIs anywhere in the document instance regardless of
RE handling. The style sheet should handle all processing.
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