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   Re: Anti-Ranti

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  • From: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@techno.com>
  • To: ricko@allette.com.au
  • Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:31:19 -0600

[Rick Jelliffe:]
> Getting rid of [XML Processing Instructions (PIs)] (without making
> some replacement, such as a convention that you can always add
> elements or attributes from other namespaces and that no schema
> language should enforce otherwise--impractical) plays into the hands
> of the embrace-and-extenders.

I would have thought that PIs would be the very last feature of XML
anyone could possibly want to do away with.  Who or what is trying to
get rid of XML PIs, and why?

-Steve

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