Hey Scott,



At 05:50 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Well explained, and good practical points on top
of it. The result document in this case would only be used internally by
our system, so <?oati-xml-result?> would work just fine in this case.

Understood. Of course, any name at all would work as long as (1) it 
wasn't already taken for something else, and (2) only machines, and 
never users, had anything to do with it.



My reasoning behind <?xml-result?> is this:
I'm writing the behind-the-scenes valid-URL testing to be as generic as
possible in the proxy script, perhaps even resorting to a try-catch XSLT
run with a stylesheet that simply attempts to access the URL via
document() to see if it fails or not. I might port it to other systems
if it proves generic enough, and <?oati-xml-result?> would include the
name of a company that has nothing to do with the process. (Replace
"oati" with "microsoft" here and it might become more poignant. ~_^)

Right.



Granted, <?xml-result?> isn't a W3C-endorsed PI at all, but it does
contain information regarding the XML-validity of an attempted reference
to an external document, and nothing more specific than that. Wouldn't
"xml-" be the most appropriate prefix here?

But as David suggested, you might decide to respect both letter and 
spirit of the W3C rules and say <?result-xml?> or some such.



If "OATI" doesn't scope properly for the long term, maybe the system 
itself needs a name.



(For the record, I'm really bad at naming things when it comes to
computer stuff. :/ )

Naming things is always hard. Paying attention and learning from 
mistakes (both those of others and one's own) is about the only way 
to improve at it.



Cheers,
Wendell

P.S. Where exactly would you draw the line when it comes to XSLT issues
vs. XML issues? XSLT is, after all, XML. :)

Actually there are those who would argue with that. You're getting 
away with this one (assuming the list-owner doesn't bark at me) since 
we're talking about a system architecture for XSLT, but generally 
even that's out of scope. Nonetheless the line is still clearer than 
that between, say, dance and ballet. See the rule above for how to 
improve at naming things.











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