TPAC topic: Errata in XML 1.0

We have received several potential errata against XML 1.0 5th Ed at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2011OctDec/0000
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2011OctDec/0001

Both are about "ambiguity" in the productions.

Paul asks:
Did we ever say or imply that the productions in the spec
were non-ambiguous?  Is the right response to these issues
simply that we never said the productions were non-ambiguous,
and if a parser writer wants or needs to translate them into
equivalent non-ambiguous versions, that's fine, but there is
nothing wrong with the productions in the spec?

Received on Monday, 24 October 2011 16:57:46 UTC