- From: Stephen Buxton <stephen.buxton@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:19:06 -0700
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
- Message-ID: <3EF930CA.6080007@oracle.com>
*Data Model, Section 3.3 XML Schemas and the XML Information Set* fifth para, third sentence: "The data model also supports values that are not nodes. Examples of these are atomic values,...". The terms "node" and "atomic value" have not been defined. Section 3.1 "Node identity" says that XML documents are tree-structured, and consist of "nodes" but does not define what these nodes are. The term "text node" is in common use regarding XML, referring to a maximal sequence of consecutive character information items that are children of an element. Section 4 "Nodes" does define nodes, and specifically mentions text nodes. But a "text node" looks like an "atomic value", so we seem to have a contradiction at this point, because it says that an "atomic value" is an example of a "value" that is not a "node". To fix this: 1. Section 3.1 "node identity", first para, should state that nodes are defined in Section 4, "Nodes". 2. "Atomic value" is defined in section 5; add a forward reference to that definition here to eliminate the suspicion that a "text node" is an "atomic value".
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