- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:24:10 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
>From: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>
>Subject: Re: [closed] Re: buglet in syntax / test cases
>Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:21:25 +0200
>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> >>From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml, Section 2.3
>> >
>> > [Definition: A Name is .... Names beginning with the string "xml",
>> > or any string which would match (('X' | 'x') ('M' | 'm') ('L' |
>> > 'l')), are reserved for standardization in this or future versions
>> > of this specification.]
>> >
>> > Hmm. I guess, then that the name XMLnewname is not reserved. Strange.
>>
>> You can read this as: "Names beginning with (the string "xml" or any
>> string which would match...)," i.e. 'beginning with the string "xml" or
>> *with* any string which would match'. I think amongst the possible
>> interpretations, this is the most reasonable one.
>>
>> - Benja
>
>I view this reading as a mangling of the English language. (But then what
>do I know, coming from Canada?)
I discovered years ago that US English isn't English. I don't see any
reason to suppose that Canadian English isn't yet another separate
language. After all, some people speak French up there, eh?
Pat
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