- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:07:36 -0700
- To: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>, "Arthur Ryman" <ryman@ca.ibm.com>
- Cc: <public-ws-desc-comments@w3.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, <public-ws-desc-comments-request@w3.org>, "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>
Given this example, isn't it more accurate to say "it's the using in mixed content"? If somebody using an xml language with an xs:anyURI data type, there is no problem. Dave > The problem is that Pat wants to use parentheses as token delimiters > *and* he wants URIs not *not* be specially quoted. So there's an > ambiguity from his perspective. You see this some times in mail clients > that "recognize" uris. E.g., > """Boris wrote it up (http://www.example.com), check it out."""" > > If the program is sticking to the spec the uri highlighted will be: > http://www.example.com), ), > Which is broken :) "Smart" clients will do: > http://www.example.com > > via an heuristic, which you clearly can't do for a formal grammar. > > So it's not the balancing, it's the using, especially as a terminating > character. > > Cheers, > Bijan.
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