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- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:42:24 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15232 --- Comment #3 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> 2011-12-16 16:42:24 UTC --- The aim is to be user-friendly, and to me bst doesn't seem to achieve that. I can conceive of someone wanting the sequence Ith Jth Kth Lth Mth Nth but it's a bit far-fetched, and you would probably want the 'th' to be a subscript in which case you would add it outside the scope of format-integer. So as far as the test is concerned, I think the principle should be that if there's evidence of a "real-world" usage of an ordinal equivalent of the sequence a, b, c, then we should make it an acceptable result, but to my mind "bst" doesn't satisfy that criterion. Probably "b" as a starting point for a sequence is a bit outlandish anyway. I added support in Saxon for any alphabetic start point so you could do (i, j ,k) or (x, y, z) or (p, q, r), all of which are encountered as sequences in real life. But there's nothing in the spec to create an expectation that these sequences will be supported. -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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