Re: Proposal: remove “.” from namefollower

Thanks: I realise (now that I've eaten) that this is the big difference between what I thought I was suggesting and what you have suggested above - a better result than excluding periods, IMO.

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On 17 Mar 2022, 13:33 +0000, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, wrote:
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> On Thursday 17 March 2022 12:36:00 (+01:00), Tom Hillman wrote:
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> > What about rules at the end of a file?
> The S is a separator, so there would be no requirement of space after the last rule.
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> Steven
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> > Tom
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> > Tomos Hillman
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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)*.
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> > > (that is demanding at least one whitespace or comment after a rule), then we could retain "." in names.
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> > > This would invalidate no existing ixml grammar that I know of (except the ones designed to test the absence of spaces after rules).
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> > > Steven
> > > On Monday 28 February 2022 14:23:21 (+01:00), Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
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> > > > Hello,
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > Be seeing you,
> > > > norm
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> > > > --
> > > > Norm Tovey-Walsh
> > > > Saxonica
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