> > > 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
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