RE: FW: XML grammar error?

I sent a response at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2011OctDec/0014

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Monday, 2011 December 12 10:51
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: FW: XML grammar error?
> 
> John Cowan scripsit:
> 
> > There is no ambiguity here.  A - B matches if A matches, provided B
> does
> > not also match what A matches.  The regular expression (in
> conventional
> > notation) /^*]]>*$/ matches any string that contains at least one
> ']]>'.
> > It is ambiguous in the sense that if there are multiple tokens of
> ']]>'
> > in the string, different matchers will match ']]>' in the pattern
> against
> > the first or the last.  But that makes no difference to the meaning
> of
> > the pattern.
> 
> Oops, the pattern should be /^.*]]>.*$/.  But I think this ought to be
> our official response to this one.
> 
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