Re: ACTION 614-12: Smart Quotes

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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