fixing regex collations [Was: Re: [Fwd: Comments on SPARQL from the XML Query and the XSL WGs]]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 06:37:52AM -0500, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:10:44PM +0000, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> >   > From: Ashok Malhotra <>
> >   > Date: 13 September 2005 16:28
> >   >
> >   > Notes on SPARQL Query Language for RDF
> >   > Last Call Draft July 21, 2005
> >   > ...
> >   > 6. String comparison is defined only using the code point collation.
> >   > Other collations are not supported.  This may be a significant
> >   > limitation.
> > 
> > Code point collation is always required.  Access to other collections can be
> > done through a custom function.
> 
> @@needs work here -- we say nothing about default vs user-supplied
> collations.

XPath's fn:matches
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-matches
now has this exciting thing to say about collations:
[[
Note:

Regular expression matching is defined on the basis of Unicode code
points; it takes no account of collations.
]]

which means we have no functions that require collations. The sentence
[[
The collation is defined in section 7.3.1 Collations.
]]
needs to go away. I don't think we need to repeat the note.

Do I need a vote on this? or can I strike it before the publication?
-- 
-eric

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