- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:24:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, spec-prod@w3.org, www-qa@w3.org
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Felix Sasaki wrote: > > > > Personally I would discourage the use of BNF, however, as it makes it > > very difficult to define error handling rules, and specifications > > often forget to define how to go from the parsed tree to the semantics > > that the specification defines, leaving it up to UA implementors to > > work out the implied mapping. > > > > For example, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in the XML 1.0 > > spec that says what the syntax of an XML Declaration (as found in a > > prolog) is. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-XMLDecl does not fulfill your needs? Nowhere in the prose does it say that the "XMLDecl" production is the XML Declaration. That is entirely my point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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