[Bug 6707] [Schema Comment] Erratum for lexical representation for positiveInteger

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6707


jboyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from jboyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>  2009-04-20 20:07:36 ---
I agree that the lexical space definition is not sufficient for validation.  As
an example, the earlier email from Michael Kay mentioned the inability of the
lexical space definition to enforce range constraints on integers.

But it is a well-known limitation that reasonable regular expressions cannot
encode range constraints, which is why I did not ask for this.  Yet, because of
the close association of "lexical" and "regular expression" commonly used in
computing, it is reasonable to expect that some editing effort would be
expended to correct the descriptions of the lexical spaces of data types when
there are simple and obvious regular expressions that do a better job of
characterizing the lexical space. 

I agree it is an editorial fix, i.e. that the correctness of a schema validator
is not ultimately affected here, but it's not clear why this feedback would
receive less attention than a grammatical error, a missing word or a misspelled
word.  It seems to be more of technical error than any of those other editorial
examples, which would surely get addressed.

I am not really sure how to change the status of this issue so that I may find
out the response of the working group to this additional comment.


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