Re: Proposal: remove “.” from namefollower

What about rules at the end of a file?

Tom

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On 17 Mar 2022, 11:33 +0000, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, wrote:
> Despite our recent resolution to accept this proposal, I will mention in passing that if we changed the top-level rule of ixml from
> ixml: s, rule+s, s.
> -s: (whitespace; comment)*.
> to
> ixml: s, rule+S, s.
> -S: (whitespace; comment)+.
> -s: (whitespace; comment)*.
>
> (that is demanding at least one whitespace or comment after a rule), then we could retain "." in names.
>
> This would invalidate no existing ixml grammar that I know of (except the ones designed to test the absence of spaces after rules).
>
> Steven
> On Monday 28 February 2022 14:23:21 (+01:00), Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On balance, I think we have to fix the ambiguity problem and the
> > simplest, most direct solution is to remove full stop from the
> > namefollower production.
> >
> > Yes, “.” is a valid XML name character, but we already accept that our
> > names and XML names are not exactly the same. Restricting the space is
> > if anything less problematic than the fact that we allow characters that
> > can’t appear in XML names. But I think that’s a consequence of Unicode
> > character classes, so I can live with that for the simplicity of the
> > expression in namefollower.
> >
> > I was concerned that we were picking up “.” from one of those classes,
> > but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
> >
> > Be seeing you,
> > norm
> >
> > --
> > Norm Tovey-Walsh
> > Saxonica
> >
>