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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:35:46 -0400 (EDT)
Don Park writes:
> I would like know exactly what W3C's position is on the use of
> Processing Instruction.
Perhaps we should start a W3C Should-People-Use-PIs Working Group, or
even a PI Activity with several WGs (the PIs-In-Old-HTML-Browsers WG,
the PIs-For-Stylesheets WG, etc.).
Sorry -- Tim's reply is actually a bit more useful. This is really a
question about people and their (varying) opinions, not about W3C
policy. Here are the two ends of the spectrum:
1. PIs are probably too useful to drop altogether -- they allow you to
do things like mark irregular revision boundaries, invent new
declaration types, etc.
2. Level-three-browser compatibility is probably too important to drop
altogether -- PIs are unlikely to show up in specs that might be
used on HTML pages (Namespaces, RDF, Stylesheet linking, XHTML).
All the best,
David
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