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Chris Maden ¼g¹D¡G > [Ron Bourret] > > > 1) Are there any conventions in PIs for use/no use of equals signs? > > Not formally, but the trend (in the XML declaration, the old PI-based > namespace proposal, and the experimental stylesheet PI) is towards > attribute-like syntax. It makes processing a bit easier; your > expression language can retrieve information about a PI in the same > way it retrieves information about attributes. Because PIs are relatively under-defined (so you can plonk inany old thing you want) it makes them difficult for DOM or XLL to say much useful about: if you use an attribute-like syntax then at least you may have a fighting chance that future common tools will be able to examine them and use them. But, of course, piggy-backing PIs onto elements using attributes is probably always a preferable option, if your PI structure can matches the start-tag locations. Even if you use attribute-like syntax, PI values are still just text strings, from the XML viewpoint. Having a target (notation) to indicate the syntax of the PI is a great headstart in labelling. Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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