- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 01:33:12 EDT
- To: tbray@textuality.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> >PIs don't make sense on a network. Their use should be restricted to the > >prolog, where they could be useful in setting up the parser (e.g. to > >identify a relevant SGML declaration). The thought of allowing a processing > >instruction within a document instance that is going to be displayable by > >many different plug-ins scares the hell out of me. This seems strange to me. If you disallow PI's, people will use Significant Comments: <!--@PS beginpage--> is just as powerful as <?PS beginpage> So you might as well retain PIs. Some HTML systems use PIs today anyway, e.g. for server-side includes, TeX -> DVI inclusion etc. See the IETF html-wg archive. > >is required for many processing instructions. (An alternative may be to > >allow a character reference to be entered within a PI, but this would make > >XML incompatible with SGML.) Not at all. SGMLdoesn't forbdg <?xxx &3901;> as far as I can tell. Or does it? Lee
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