Re: ACTION 614-12: Smart Quotes

On 2015-09-10 12:48, Josh Spiegel wrote:
>> I would prefer to allow users to choose any character they like in 
>> place of the “$”
> 
> This was debated and decided at Face-To-Face Meeting #554:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2013Nov/0074.html
> 
> Some implementations may separate lexical processing [1] from parsing
> so the tokenization of a query shouldn’t, for example, depend on
> evaluating a declaration in the prolog.  There were also concerns that
> third-party parser generators may not be able to support this kind of
> thing.

Yes - Although I very much wanted to be able to assign the string 
dynamically, I (we all) had accepted this version as a compromise, at 
the face to face meeting.

Liam

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C
XML Activity Lead;
Digital publishing; HTML Accessibility

Received on Thursday, 10 September 2015 19:01:23 UTC