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On Mon, 20 May 2002 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:

> > I mean, editing XML files in C mode sounds a very strange requirement, 
> > one that should not happen frequently.
> 
> Indeed.  I shouldn't have used such a strange example.  But I did say
> that there might be special modes on top of XML which might wish to
> use it.
> 
> Hm.  All things considered, maybe I should retract my suggestion.
> You can always add those special modes to a list of `grok XML
> processing instruction stuff' modes.

If this is something special to XML files only (is it?), then perhaps XML 
mode should be able to edit C/Lisp/Ada/Pascal/whatever files embedded in 
XML.  Then you get both of the worlds for free (well, almost ;-).