[Bug 5211] [FT] missing hyphens for "Full Text"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5211





------- Comment #3 from mike@saxonica.com  2007-10-29 16:06 -------
Nice to have some grammatical precision, none of this side-effecting
verbalizing that goes on elsewhere.

But in "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text specification", Full-Text is not
being used adjectivally. This phrase means "Specification of XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Full Text". If there's a compound adjective here it's the entire
phrase XQuery-1.0-and-XPath-2.0-Full-Text. Hyphenating it would suggest that
there are two versions of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 specification, a
full-text one and a short-text one, and that we are referring to the latter.

It would be really nice if we could find a better name for this technology than
"full text", but I guess that's asking too much. "Text Retrieval"?

Michael Kay

Received on Monday, 29 October 2007 16:06:34 UTC