- From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:23:53 -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/2002Nov/0105.html
that did not receive a response from the WG.
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A.1.2 Lexical Rules
The title "Lexical Rules" doesn't descibe this section very well.
"Lexical State Machine" or "Lexical Automaton" would be more accurate.
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para 1
"[contexts and transitions] is described"
Change "is" to "are".
"series of states"
There's no particular ordering on the states, so "set of states"
would be more accurate.
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para 2
'a transition will "push" [a state] and will later restore that state by
a "pop" ...'
You're saying that a transition will both push a state and later
restore it, which is not true. One transition pushes it, and another
pops it. So you could say something like:
This state is restored (i.e., made the current state) by a
subsequent "popState" transition.
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para 3
"the parser productions"
This phrase conflates the parser and the grammar. Instead, say "the
productions of A.1".
Also (not a leftover):
"it will be legal in the current EBNF production"
The idea of "current production" is undefined.
Maybe replace with "it will be deemed legal by the parser".
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-Michael Dyck
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