[XML-SIG] ANN: XIST 2.0

Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:37:25 +0200

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:39:14PM +0200, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 
>>   * XIST now has namespace support for parsing and publishing.
>>     Namespace support is even available for entities and
>>     processing instruction.
> 
> 
>   Are you trying to reinvent XML ? Namespace support for PI ???
> What's that ?

The character : is valid inside processing instruction targets, so
why shouldn't the application use this to interpret targets
containing : as prefix/localname pairs?

<html><?php:expression "foo"?></html>

is perfectly valid XML and so is

<html><?jsp:expression "foo"?></html>

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald