[XML-SIG] ANN: XIST 2.0

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
17 Oct 2002 20:16:30 +0200


Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:

>   No neither, The semantic of the namespace applies only to elements and
> attributes, and again <?foo:bar?> is not correct w.r.t. XML Namespace.

No, but is that relevant? Walter is defining PIs, and can't use
whatever architecture he likes for that?

> 
> > So is there any better way to fix this problem? The point of XIST
> 
>   Namespace are not intended to cover PIs. Don't try to force the
> spec in a behaviour  or semantic it clearly wasn't intended for.

He isn't. He is not attempting to interpret the spec. He is giving a
semantics to his own processing chain. Applications should be allowed
to use whatever PIs they feel reasonable.

Regards,
Martin