[Bug 5509] Semantics of distance wrt overlapping tokens at same starting position is unclear

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5509


holstege@mathling.com changed:

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------- Comment #1 from holstege@mathling.com  2008-02-28 19:14 -------
Proposal:
(1) Change the semantics functions to order by startPos, endPos
This still leads to some non-determinism when the startPos and endPos are 
identical.  However, for the purposes of distance calculations, this is 
irrelevant.

(2) In addition, and this relates to #4715 more than this bug, we could in
section 2 say something like:
"Tokens are ordered by their starting positions and, if necessary, their ending
positions." 

I will go ahead with (1) as we agree this is the right thing to do. Comments on
#2?

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2008 19:14:52 UTC