Re: forbiddenCharacters data category - related to [ACTIOn-189]

2012/8/27 Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>

> On 27.8.2012 13:56, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>
> >> My question then is: how do you work with such character and XML regex?
> >> If you can't then that's one more reason to avoid using XML regex.
> >>
> >
> > I would propose to avoid the regex completely then, since it seems that
> > then the proposal from Jirka at
> >
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Aug/0280.html
> > wouldn't be a solution too.
>
> If you will list allowed characters (instead forbidden) you don't need
> way how to enter C0 and C1 characters as those can't be expressed in XML
> anyway.
>
> > We had concerns about the regex before, and Michael said this data
> category
> > would fulfil his needs without the regex. So let's go forward with that.
> > Otherwise we will create regex that don't work with the content we want
> > them to work on.
>
> If we need to restrict characters that are allowed for translations
> regexes are minimum. For some languages even more complex solutions
> which work on top of regexps might be needed, for example CREPDL schema
> language:
>
> http://lists.dsdl.org/dsdl-discuss/2009-04/att-0005/part7FDIS.pdf
>
> We really shoudln't reinvent wheel and use existing standardized stuff.
> Having comma separated list of forbidden characters is something which
> is not used elsewhere.
>


OK, but that would then be the allowed characters approach, based on the
XML Schema production - Yves, others (Michael), what do you think?

Felix


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