- From: Piotr Kaminski <piotr@ideanest.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:21:36 -0800
- To: "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
[talking about validating PIs]
Elliotte Rusty Harold said:
> There can be more than one schema for a document. There can be more
> than one validation layer. There is more than one schema language.
I know. But one of the main arguments *for* PIs was that adding new
"normal" elements to an XML document would break schemas, hence we need
out-of-band instructions, etc. Your statement above implicitly dismisses
this argument, and hence seems to be a vote against the need for PIs. Or
am I misinterpreting?
My point: you can't have it both ways. Either PIs are out-of-band, and
not part of the main document's schema (what the original proponents
wanted, I believe), or they are validated by the schema, in which case we
might as well use normal elements.
-- P.
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