- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:33:41 +0000
- To: Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>
- Cc: Tom Hillman <tom@expertml.com>, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 10:29, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote: > I still don’t really understand the motivation for allowing delimiter > choices (“:” or “=” and “;” or “|”) when we could just pick two. I kind > of like “;”, but I suspect that “=” and “|” is intuitively more > consistent than “=” and “;”. +1 Norm. I find it confusing and certainly agree that for options vert bar is much more familiar. I would consider this as an annoyance for many users, misreading a semicolon as some other marker, hence a brake on uptake. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
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