- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 19:06:42 -0500
- To: Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com>
- Cc: ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 23:53:40 +0000 Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com> wrote: > but that would > > depend on (say) > > -letter x (3, 5) > > not being ambiguous. > > > As I mentioned, anything that requires whitespace around an operator > would mean a new, more complicated, approach to whitespace. would -letter x(3, 5) work? It would > also make the repetition operator's syntax different from that of "*" > and "+", which I think is not a good thing. fair. i'd thought of @ by analogy with e.g. invoices and quantities. What about (* 3, 5) ? (with spaces optional of course) > > As for interleaving, don't we already have that with separators? don't think so. In RNG, interleave says its children can appear in any order, so shoe & sock matches shoe sock as well as sock shoe. It comes from the SGML & operator in DTDs, but without the incredible difficulties that operator caused there. liam -- Liam Quin: Delightful Computing - Training and Consultancy in XSLT / XML Markup / Typography / CSS / Accessibility / and more... Outreach for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Vintage art digital files - fromoldbooks.org
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