[Bug 2441] xqx: character references

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2441





------- Comment #24 from maxim.orgiyan@oracle.com  2006-09-29 17:34 -------
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #18)
> 
> > Given these descriptions, one possible algorithm, for example, is to process a
> > string
> > by first applying all entity ref replacements, and then all the character
> > reference replacements on the resulting string. Which is what at least
> > one processors I tried appears to do.
> 
> 
> The spec does not explictly say that algorithm is not used, but it can not list
> all possible non-used algorithm. if such double parsing were to be used the
> string "&" would, like the string "&" be a syntax error (unterminated
> reference, element content of <a/> would generate an element node, etc.
> There is no way that the spec can be interepreted in that way.
> 
> David
>>> Not necessarily. I think you're assuming the
>>> XQuery rules would apply after the second pass of such algorithm,
>>> but that doesn't have to be the case.
>>>
>>> I am not asking XQuery to like all possible non-used algorithm. 
>>> It could, very easily and precisely, however, give the *one*
>>> algorithm to be used. Which would eliminate potential ambiguities.
>

Received on Friday, 29 September 2006 17:34:56 UTC