- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:14:27 -0600
- To: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: public-ixml@w3.org
Norm Tovey-Walsh writes: > I’m happy to argue about the mark characters later, so I’m not trying to > prevent the next draft from using “^” for insertions since that’s what > we agreed. However, I realized that using “^” for insertions has another > consequence: it leaves no mark that means “match and insert this”. > ... > But if we overload “^” for insertions, then the semantics of the > previous rule change. It will only match “a” and it will produce > <S>(a)</S>. Any language in which the default behavior cannot be explicitly named has a gap and is suspect. I liked "+" as a signal for insertion, since it's a conventional opposite of "-", and insertion is notionally opposite to suppression. Michael -- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC http://blackmesatech.com
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