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[John Cowan]

david at megginson.com wrote:

> PI's provide a (slightly clumsy) method for adding new declaration
> types to XML without breaking existing parsers.  In general, I don't
> think that it's a good idea to use elements and attributes for
> declarations, since they represent the logical structure of the
> document itself.

An excellent point, which I was going to include but couldn't think
how to phrase.  Thank you.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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