- From: Seaborne, Andy <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:28:48 +0000
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
Forgot add [OK?] to subject line Andy Seaborne, Andy wrote: > > > > Fred Zemke wrote: >> First comment: >> Comments are line-terminated, but you have not defined your line >> terminators. >> Are they the same as the characters that are normalized by XML 1.0? >> by XML 1.1? > > I've added that comments are terminated by 0x0D or 0x0A (if there are > multiple > such characters, then they would be considered as white space in a part > of the > grammar where white space is only considered as token separators). > > I've also added that a comment is treated as white space and comments > separate > tokens. > >> >> Second comment: >> Established practice in languages has moved away from line-terminated >> comments. This is out of step with many >> W3C recommendations, such as XML and XQuery. >> Languages that originally had only line-terminated comments >> subsequently decided that they need delimited comments (SQL, for >> example). > > In an earlier design, comment forms of single and multiline forms were > included. The working group was more in favour of just one form and to > follow the style of scripting languages. > >> >> Fred Zemke >> > > I hope this addresses your comments - please let us know if it does. > > Andy
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