- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:57:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
The string-range() function is underspecified in several ways in the XPointer CR. The seocnd problem I note is that there is no discussion of what happens when the third and fourth arguments to string-range are out of bounds. For instance what is someone asks for the match to begin at -3? or to continue for 12 characters when the location string value only contains 8 characters? Is this an error? Does this just result in pinning the range to the edge of the string? The description of the thrid and fourth arguments to string-range needs to be clarified on these points. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/books/javaio/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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