RE: xhtml2-datatypes-2.rng -- Possible semantic problem with Charset.datatype breaks Trang (PR#7337)

I don't have a strong opinion on how far to go with datatype
constraints over what was in XHTML1.X.

As for the specific pattern I proposed below, I first had only
[^\s] but then changed to [^\s](\s)* to allow intervening space;
however, I see this is not quite correct either since the RNG
<list> pattern already uses intervening whitespace to delimit
list elements and, further, my initial pattern wasn't quite
correct either. So it seems that the correct pattern is probably
"[^\s]+", so the RNG would be:

<data type="string">
  <param name="pattern">[^\s]+</param>
</data>

G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masayasu Ishikawa [mailto:mimasa@w3.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 1:36 PM
> To: Glenn A. Adams
> Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org; xhtml2-issues@mn.aptest.com
> Subject: Re: xhtml2-datatypes-2.rng -- Possible semantic 
> problem with Charset.datatype breaks Trang (PR#7337)
> 
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> Actually I was wondering how far we would like to elaborate 
> datatyping. "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema" didn't 
> make heavy use of built-in simple datatypes (e.g. "Charset" 
> was just "xs:string"), to which the XML Schema WG complained. 
>  Characters allowed for charset name are much restricted and 
> we could elaborate that restriction to some extent with 
> regular expressions.  Do we want to do this?
> 
> "Glenn A. Adams" <glenn@xfsi.com> wrote:
> 
> > <!-- possible fix -->
> >       <data type="string">
> > 	  <param name="pattern">[^\s](\s)*</param>
> >       </data>
> > <!-- end fix -->
> 
> If we really want to elaborate the Charset datatype, I don't 
> think the pattern should allow white space, at the very least 
> "\S+" or something.
> 
> It's "xhtml-datatypes-2.rng", not "xhtml2-datatypes-2.rng", BTW.
> 
> > [1] 
> > 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/relax_module_defs.> html#a_rmodule_Datatypes
> > [2] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
> W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
>

Received on Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:01:21 UTC