Re: processing-instruction?

Subject: Re: processing-instruction?
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 17:22:19 -0500
Stig S. Bakken wrote:
> 
> However, since processing-instruction is an atomic flow object, I
> can't use the sosofo containing the "Section Heading" data when
> creating the processing instruction.  The PI wants a string for its
> data.  So I need some way of converting the "title" sosofo to a
> string.  Is that possible?

Any sosofo is generated completely from data in the document, usually
using some query language features like (data) (selelct-elements) and so
forth. You can get the same data in the same way and use it as a string
instead of turning it into a sosofo.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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