PITarget uniqueness

[John Cowan]

Peter Stark wrote:

> How do I guarantee that the target name of my Processing Instructions (PI)
> are unique? It's probably out of the scope of the XML spec. to specify, but
> are there any general guidelines for naming PIs?

Yes.  The XML Rec specifically allows you to create NOTATION declarations
that map the targets of PIs to URIs or FPIs, thus:

	<DOCTYPE whatever [
		<!NOTATION myapp SYSTEM
		"http://my.domain.com/docs/myapp/index.html">]>
	...
	<?myapp do something?>

Then your application can match not on the name, which can be
different in different documents, but on the consistent and unique URI.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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