RE: [xml-dev] Well-established uses of processing instructions?

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Rick Jelliffe' <>,
Date
2005-05-09T09:27:43Z
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] Well-established uses of processing instructions?
> 
> But PIs used to generate text are non-portable, and so 
> appropriate for 
> documents
> that are being pre-processed. Probably what should be used is 
>  entities:
> 
> <!ENTITY current-data SYSTEM 
> "http://www.eg.com/dynamic?get-current-date">
> 
> because the information is data content.

Except that you then have to muck about with low-level coding to write an
EntityResolver and register it with your XML parser, rather than just adding
a simple template rule to your stylesheet.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/