[Bug 3333] stylesheet needs to generate more parenthesis

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3333


jim.melton@acm.org changed:

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------- Comment #1 from jim.melton@acm.org  2006-06-15 18:51 -------
Many thanks for your report.  After spending some time thinking about the
specific situation that you reported and researching the intended relationships
between the XQueryX grammar and the XQuery grammar, it is not completely
obvious that your report actually identifies a bug. 

Consider the XQuery syntax that the XQueryX stylesheet generates from your
XQueryX document: (7 + let $c:=5 return $c).  As you state, that query is
syntactically incorrect.  A syntactically-valid variation is: (7 + (let $c:=5
return $c)), with parentheses surrounding the FLWOR expression "let $c:=5
return $c". 

That suggests that the proper way to express the query in XQueryX is to embed
the XQueryX representation of the FLWOR expression in an
<xqx:parenthesizedExpr> element.  Naturally, the XQueryX stylesheet would
generate the surrounding parentheses, resulting in correct XQuery syntax. 

However, an argument can be made that the XQueryX stylesheet could, without
breaking the transformation of any other queries, simply generate parentheses
surrounding FLWOR expressions in all situations, as it does for expressions
such as sums, differences, products, comparisons, and so forth. 

Before I propose a change to the XML Query Working Group that the stylesheet be
modified in this way, I would like a bit more feedback and review.

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:51:14 UTC