- From: Noe Michejda <noe_michejda@7thportal.pl>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:16:11 +0100
- To: "Ashok Malhotra" <ashokma@microsoft.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
> As for the names of the extractor functions, we use the plural forms for extracting components from durations. > This seems right, as durations typically have multiple years, hours, minutes, etc. Yes, I agree. > We use the singular forms for extracting year, month and day from dateTime, date and time values. > We use the plural forms when we extract hours, minutes and seconds from such values. This seems more > natural to me but I'm happy to listen to arguments. If it is more natural depends on context. Hour sounds better in singular, but second and minute sometimes indeed are better in plural. My argument is that many existing APIs and languages uses singular forms, such as SQL or MFC libraries. And I think it will be nice to differentiate functions operating on duration and date/time, by using plural (quantity of seconds, minutes, hours in duration) and singular (value of component). > fn:doc and fn:document - fn:doc is a simplified version of fn:document that the XQuery WG members found was > sufficient > for XQuery. fn:document() has been moved to the XSLT 2.0 specification. We agreed to adding a note there that > explains why the two functions are needed. I rethinked this. Now I agree that complex behavior of document() can be undesirable in XQuery > Please let us know if your comments have been satisfactorily addressed. Regards, Noe Michejda 7th Portal S.C.
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