Re: untestable assertions

I'm significantly concerned at the philosophical implications of 
untestable assertions. I suggest we need to address the 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability of the whole realm :-)

Paul

paul.downey@bt.com wrote:
> 
> In our document text, we have a number of assertions which aren't readily expressible as an XPath expression. Jon's latest constraint to disallow cyclic references being one, requiring UTF-8/UTF-16 being another.
> 
> Something we could consider is adding assertions as placeholders to our pattern detector, as suggested by Rick, here:
> 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/expressing_untested_and_untest.html
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

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Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:45:41 UTC