Re: [dss] Namespace inheritance, other approach

[Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>]

Edward Shallow wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> This wholw tree and sub-tree discussion is fine, and I believe we are
> getting closer to consensus. But please remember we still have occassions
> where some form of encoding/escaping will always be required (i.e. <?XML
> ...> declaration lines and PI lines which would precede the root). This is
> the "whole document" scenario which we have not outlawed and is a legitimate
> use-case. Hence the "encoding=" attribute that we are contemplating that we
> borrowed from "ATOM" would have to support, at a minimum 1) xml (the default
> perhaps), 2) escaped, and 3) base64.

Could you give examples of why we need to put Processing instructions 
and <?XML ...> lines in <dss:XMLData>?


Trevor