[Bug 1889] Regex [+-] syntax

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1889


mike@saxonica.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |




------- Comment #4 from mike@saxonica.com  2006-09-21 07:32 -------
I fail to understand how five-and-a-half years after the XML Schema
specification came out, the WG has failed to resolve a simple technical problem
that has been known for nearly all that time, and can now deem that the problem
will be allowed to remain in the next release of the specification. This isn't
something that's difficult to resolve because of environment dependencies or
implementation difficulties or political hassles or because it's at the
boundaries of computer science. It's a simple straightforward bug. Schema
implementors and schema authors have been tripping over this issue, even W3C
working groups have been publishing schemas that work with some processors and
not others. Moreover, the QT specifications are impacted because they refer
normatively to the regex definitions in Schema Part 2. Closing this as WONTFIX
seems to show a wanton disregard for quality. If it's not the purpose of a 1.1
release to fix such problems, what is the purpose?

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:32:53 UTC