• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: Steven Rowe <sarowe@t...>
• Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 10:03:46 -0400

At 01:09 AM 4/8/00 -0400, Steven Rowe wrote:
>Is it not ironic that Common XML, an attempt to increase interoperability,
>excludes PIs, which are likely to be the mechanism which will be proposed
>to express document feature requirements, another attempt to increase
>interoperability.

It would be ironic, except that Common XML doesn't exclude PIs.  It just
keeps them out of the core set of safely interoperable features.

For details, see:
> There's a complete (though rough and unpolished) draft up at:
> http://www.simonstl.com/articles/cxmlspec.txt

Section 3.2 has the details you want.

Common XML doesn't exclude _anything_ in XML - it just divides up XML in
terms of feature support requirements and interoperability.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth
http://www.simonstl.com

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