- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:48:08 +0100
- To: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: Josh Spiegel <josh.spiegel@oracle.com>, "Robie, Jonathan" <jonathan.robie@emc.com>, Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath <public-xsl-query@w3.org>
Yes, I remember now. Disappointing. I guess the “parser generator” rationale is quite powerful, but I hate doing things in the interests of implementors rather than in the interests of users. Michael Kay Saxonica > On 10 Sep 2015, at 20:01, Liam Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > > 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 >
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