[closed] Re: p:www-form-urldecode clarifications

Toman_Vojtech@emc.com writes:

> Section 7.2.7 (p:www-form-urldecode) contains a note that says:
>
> "If any parameter name occurs more than once in the encoded string, the
> resulting parameter set will contain a c:param for each instance."
>
> Shouldn't we add something along the lines: "The c:param elements in the
> resulting parameter set appear in the same order as the corresponding
> name/value pairs in the "value" option."?
>
> The most important consequence of this would be that it would guarantee
> that the output of p:www-form-urldecode would be the same across
> different XProc implementations. Also, in the case of duplicate
> parameters, it would be clear what to do.
>
> --
>
> err:XC0037 says that: "I this a dynamic error if the value provided is
> not a properly x-www-form-urlencoded value."
>
> I think this error could also cover the case where the decoded parameter
> name is not a valid QName (or even stricter, a valid NCName??? - but
> that depends what we say about names that contains a colon).

Per the 11 Dec telcon, the document order of the resulting parameters
is the left-to-right order of the name/value pairs in the encoded string
and it's a dynamic error if the name isn't a valid NCName.

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                                          norm

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