RE: XPath/Xquery Operations And Function Specification:

Note that the Formal semantics gives all the type definitions in accessible form. The HTML format is highly confusing since the representation depends on your browser setting. I think it would be better to have a reference to the definitions in the formal semantics....

Best regards
Michael

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> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:23 AM
> To: tvraman@almaden.ibm.com
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> Subject: Re: XPath/Xquery Operations And Function Specification:
> 
> 
> Err presumably you mean draft comment.
> 
> Anyway, yes, it seems a pretty obviously sensible one for us to make
> officially.
> 
> chaals
> 
> On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 19:20 Europe/Zurich, T. V. Raman wrote:
> 
> >
> > I sent this privately to one of the editors, but am sending it
> > here as an official last call comment from the WAI so it gets
> > addressed.
> >
> >
> > Also, in his reply Ashok indicated to me that the group was
> > thinking  of getting rid of the nested HTML lists that show type
> > hierarchy relations in later sections, please do not do this as
> > it would make your specification document even more inaccessible.
> >
> > Finally WAI --we may want to point the QA group at these kinds of
> > issues where type hierarchy and other technical information get
> > buried in a diagram in a specification document, I think that is
> > just a bad idea in general.
> >
> >
> >
> > Details:
> >
> >  section 1.2 contains a diagram for the type hierarchy --but fails
> >  to spell out the hierarchy outside of the diagram.
> >
> >  It does pretend to be a good access citizen in that it explains
> >  the notation used in the diagram; however this is inadequate for
> >  someone wishing to get at the content.
> >
> >  Could you:
> >
> >  A) provide me witht he missing content,
> >  and
> >  B) ensure that the next working draft fixes the problem?
> >
> >  What I'm looking for is a textual summary of the type hierarchy
> >  --set of nested html lists would do fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > --Raman
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > --raman
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