Re: escaping quotes

> 
> > 3. Regarding your response to Hassan suggesting " instead of \", I do
> > not understand your reasoning. You were so gang-ho on brevity and now
> > suddenly 6 characters instead of two?
> > 
> > If you want to use entities, like ", then why not use them
> > throughout? That is, instead of rif:iri use &rif;iri, and we are done away
> > with context-sensitive curies and all that. (This is what I was proposing
> > from the very beginning except that I was suggesting to use : instead of
> > &...;.)
> 
> Surely we're only talking about using """ in the XML syntax, not in
> the Presentation Syntax.

Nope.  Axel's email, Hassan's question, and Axel's and mine followups were
about the presentation syntax.

> 
> The question about how we escape quotes in the presentation syntax
> worries me because it's very distracting.  I'd like the presentation
> syntax to be implementable, but I don't want to spend significant WG
> time on that this month (and we've already spent a lot).

This was the idea (to underspecify the syntax). But other people found it
too verbose to use for test cases and other examples. This is how this
whole discussion started.


	--michael 

> Maybe we can focus on issues in the XML syntax instead?
> 
>      -- Sandro
>

Received on Monday, 5 May 2008 18:53:10 UTC