- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:43:49 +0000
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, "Norm Tovey-Walsh" <norm@saxonica.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
> Tks for the clarification Steven. > <myView> KISS principle, have one option - from the given list () > seems clearest</myView> I completely agree with the KISS principle, but the use of () doesn't come from a design for representing empty, but from generality and consistency. There are a number of ways you could explicitly mark empty alternatives, but they emerge from generality, not from a use case. I did once consider allowing empty strings empty: "". but it didn't add any functionality. Steven
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