OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   Re: XML processing instruction survey

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]
  • From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
  • To: "Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com>, "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:56:56 -0800

At 03:07 PM 11/30/99 -0800, Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote:
>I'm interested in the extent to which people are actually using the XML
>processing instruction ( <?xml ) in their XML files, and the extent to which
>they find it useful.

It's not really designed for people.  It's mostly designed for use
by the XML processor to help figure out the encoding and make sure that
this is really XML.

I'd think that using it at the application level would be not only
uncommon but probably unwise.  I'd be interested to hear any positive
responses to the query. -T.

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)






 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS