- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:01:18 -0400
- To: Josh Spiegel <josh.spiegel@oracle.com>
- Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, "Robie, Jonathan" <jonathan.robie@emc.com>, Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath <public-xsl-query@w3.org>
On 2015-09-10 12:48, Josh Spiegel wrote: >> I would prefer to allow users to choose any character they like in >> place of the “$” > > This was debated and decided at Face-To-Face Meeting #554: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2013Nov/0074.html > > Some implementations may separate lexical processing [1] from parsing > so the tokenization of a query shouldn’t, for example, depend on > evaluating a declaration in the prolog. There were also concerns that > third-party parser generators may not be able to support this kind of > thing. Yes - Although I very much wanted to be able to assign the string dynamically, I (we all) had accepted this version as a compromise, at the face to face meeting. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead; Digital publishing; HTML Accessibility
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