RE: [Use cases] 1.2.4.3 missing comma

> Thanks for the other fixes. The basic issue with this comma problem 
> (and the whitespace mentioned elsewhere), is these oddities make 
> extraction from the use cases for testing much more difficult. I 
> understand the comma is not text. It seems it should still be there 
> because the output is still a sequence; it is not inside another 
> element which would make the elements be children.

It should be pointed out that there is no normative serialization of the
results of a query. In cases where the result of the query is a single
document node or element node (which is true of most of the use cases),
results can be compared by serializing and then converting to a canonical
XML form. But if the result is say a sequence of integers, there is no
definitive way of serializing it that all products will adhere to.

Michael Kay

Received on Tuesday, 28 October 2003 17:26:17 UTC