[Bug 2521] Numbering regular expressions in Appendix H

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2521


C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>  2009-05-09 15:30:34 ---
A proposal to resolve this issue by numbering all grammar productions has been
placed on the server at 

    http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/06/xmlschema-2/datatypes.b2521.html
    [member-only link]

This proposal has not been reviewed by the other editors and does not
necessarily carry editorial consensus.  (In particular, it runs directly
counter to the solution offered in comment 1.)

For technical reasons (the numbers in question are generated by the stylesheet)
the actual changes are not marked in color.  A search for the string "::=" in
the status quo document and the proposal will illustrate the changes.  The
production rule for stringRep in section 3.3.12, for example, reads, in the
status quo:

    Lexical Space

    stringRep ::= Char* 
        /* (as defined in [XML]) */

In the change proposal, it reads 

    Lexical Space

    [1] stringRep ::= Char* 
        /* (as defined in [XML]) */

My experience as a reader is that the number of grammar productions is helpful,
so I do not wish to adopt the proposal in comment 1 to suppress them for all
productions.  On the contrary, I think it is a modest improvement in the spec
to number the other productions in the spec.


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