- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:27:26 -0500
- To: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
I am classifying this as substantive, since several of these questions affect the definition of the language. 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/www-xml-query-comments/2002Jan/0002.html >that did not receive a response from the WG. > >-------------------- > >[3] ExprComment > > This seems like a poor name for the symbol, given that it's not a > kind of expression. (In fact, CompXmlComment would seem to have more > of a claim to the name, since it actually is a kind of expression.) > Why not just "Comment"? > > By the way, why did you drop single-line comments (# to line-end)? > > What is the grammatical/lexical effect of a comment? E.g., is > foo(: comment :)bar > equivalent to > foobar > or > foo bar > ? > (And is the effect the same for Pragmas and MUExtensions?) > >-------- > >[9] DoubleLiteral > > Change ("e" | "E") to [eE] > Change ("+" | "-") to [+-] > >[23] HexDigits > > Change > ([0-9] | [a-f] | [A-F]) > to > [0-9a-fA-F] > >-------- > >3.7.1 Direct Element Constructors > >"a pair of identical curly brace characters within the content of an >element or attribute are interpreted by XQuery as a single curly brace >character" >[And similarly in A.2.2 ELEMENT_CONTENT.] > An alternative would be to use character references (e.g., { > and }). > >-Michael Dyck > > >
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