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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@valinet.com> was heard to say:
> | I like the idea of what you're trying to do, but giving particular PIs an
> | essential function in XML seems to me the wrong way to go.
>
> Can someone point me to some arguments against PIs? There seems to be
> strong sentiment against them, and I don't understand why.
The main argument is that they don't play well with compound documents,
because they are outside the regular element tree structure. As such,
they are considered hacks.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
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