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- Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 17:20:34 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4526 ------- Comment #1 from jonathan.robie@redhat.com 2007-05-08 17:20 ------- I don't like the idea of changing this in the dynamic semantics. If a user attempts to add a new child to an existing element that does not exist, I think the user should be made aware of the error - ignoring this silently will make it harder to find bugs. In the static semantics, I'm somewhat sympathetic, but I can also live with the status quo. I think XQuery's static semantics currently require users to do more work than they should for cardinality constraints, and implementations have often decided to relax these constraints. In keeping with what many people are currently implementing, I think relaxing this statically makes sense - but to *, not to ?. On the other hand, it might be better to have consistency now, and review the usability of the static semantics of the language as a whole in vNext.
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