RE: ACTION 614-12: Smart Quotes from Abel Braaksma on 2015-09-21 (public-xsl-query@w3.org from September 2015)

From: Abel Braaksma <abel.braaksma@xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:40:04 +0200
To: "'Michael Kay'" <mike@saxonica.com>, "'Florent Georges'" <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
Cc: "'Public Joint XSLT XQuery XPath'" <public-xsl-query@w3.org>
Message-ID: <00be01d0f440$bbcec940$336c5bc0$@xs4all.nl>

> > (literal elements for instance).  This is rather done in XQuery (or
> > XSLT, but XSLT already has such a mechanism).
> >
> 
> It’s actually about constructing strings rather than text nodes, but I think
> similar reasoning applies.
> 
> XPath is designed for embedding in other languages, and the problems of
> escaping special characters depend very much on the escaping conventions
> of the language in which it is embedded. A solution that works for one host
> language might work very badly for another.
> 

Ah, I missed this one. Please ignore my previous mail. But yes, this was precisely why I suggested *not* to use any syntax involving angle brackets. But since there seems to be consensus that it is not going to become part of XPath, that argument doesn't fly anymore ;). 

Cheers,
Abel

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