[XQuery] BEA_017 from Daniela Florescu on 2004-02-16 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Daniela Florescu <danielaf@bea.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:40:29 -0800
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Message-Id: <A1676E54-6042-11D8-9D91-0003937198F4@bea.com>

XQuery: request for simplification and symmetry

Sequence type production is supposed to denote a
type. However, in case of processing instructions it
mentions the content of the PI.

The text mentions in a couple of places that a type represented
by a sequence type production helps filtering of items by their
type. This is clearly incorrect for  Pis since in this case it filters 
by content.

Two questions:
(a) what does this extra special case buys  to the language?
(b) how will this type/content be mapped to a Formal Semantics type ?

Received on Monday, 16 February 2004 00:39:36 UTC