RE: XML Information Set from David Megginson on 1999-07-05 (www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:46:22 -0400 (EDT)
To: www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <14208.43225.794521.874430@localhost.localdomain>

Lheureux,Benoit writes:

 > One reason why XML comments are important and therefore an
 > "integral part" of the XML document is that some enterprises use
 > XML comments as one way (of 3) to "work around" DTD's limited
 > expressive abilities.

The Infoset spec editor, John Cowan, will formally reply to this
comment, but I'd just like to ask for a quick clarification.  Is there 
a reason that you use comments rather than processing instructions to
work around XML limitations?

Thanks, and all the best,

David

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

Received on Monday, 5 July 1999 09:49:52 UTC