- From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:19:49 -0800
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language W3C Working Draft 12 November 2003 Here are some comments from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2002Aug/0021.html that did not receive a response from the WG. ------ A.1 EBNF "The following grammar uses the same Basic Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) notation as [XML 1.0], except that grammar symbols always have initial capital letters." I still wonder what the reason for this exception is. And that isn't the only difference from the notation used in XML. In fact, you immediately discuss two others -- the <> terminal groupings, and the /**/ production comments. Another is the use (in prodns [11,19,21,26]) of references to symbols in other specifications. Maybe you could just change "except that" to something like "with the following minor differences". Also (this isn't actually a leftover comment, but while I'm here): there's no reason to capitalize the word "Basic". The XML spec itself uses the word "simple". (These comments also apply to a similar sentence in 1 Introduction.) ----- A.2 Lexical structure "The rules for calculating these states are given in the A.2.2 Lexical Rules section." No, A.2.2 does not give rules for calculating the states. -Michael Dyck
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