Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> / Jirka Kosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> 
> | harmless compared to <!DOCTYPE or xsi:schemaLocation because such PI don't
> | have side effects. Applications that take care can use PI to fetch and use
> | custom schema for guided editing or validation. Most of applications will
> | simply ignore this PI and will process document as general XHTML code which
> | is a right thing here.
> 
> Yep. I'm not really arguing against the PI as much as lamenting the
> fact that the locating rules aren't more powerful and more portable.

And I guess I'd argue that before having a discussion about other
solutions such as the proposed PI, maybe we ought to first have a
discussion about whether locating rules could be made more powerful
and more portable, and if so, exactly how.

  --Mike

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