Re: [XQuery] lexical leftovers 3

Also editorial, right?

Jonathan

Michael Dyck wrote:

>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.
>
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>
>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.)
>
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>
>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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