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   Re: [xml-dev] Processing instruction guidelines

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jeni@jenitennison.com (Jeni Tennison) writes:
>Are there any other good uses for PIs? Does anyone have examples of
>*inappropriate* uses? I have the impression that some people think
>that any use of PIs is inappropriate, but I'm not sure what the
>argument is?

I used PIs a few times to demonstrate the forcible accomodation of
overlapping markup within well-formed XML, but that never even struck me
as kosher.

Fortunately these folks at lmnl.org have found better ways around that
set of problems!

(And I need to find more time to think about LMNL and related topics!)

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org




 

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