--On August 30, 2005 11:39:04 AM +1000 Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone wrote up "A Robots Processing Instruction for XML Documents" > http://atrus.org/writings/technical/robots_pi/spec-199912__/ > That's a PI though, and I have no idea how well supported they are. I'd > prefer a namespaced XML vocabulary.
That was me. I think it makes perfect sense as a PI. But I think reuse via namespaces is oversold. For example, we didn't even try to use Dublin Core tags in Atom. PI support is required by the XML spec -- "must be passed to the application." wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Software Architect, Verity