- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:01:18 -0700
- To: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > MSM writes: > >> In re comment 2: speaking for myself, the replacement of the term "node set" >> with the term "node sequence" does not seem to me to be unmotivated; the term >> "node set" in XPath 1.0 is a bit of a misnomer, since the nodes are sequenced, >> and the term "node set" is no longer used in the version of XPath to which XSD >> normatively refers. My personal view is that many more occurrences of 'set' >> ought to have been replaced here by current terminology, but the WG decided >> otherwise. > > It was the removal of "exactly", not the change from 'sequence' to > 'set' that I was commenting on. Thanks for the clarification. I think 'exactly' does no work in the sentence, so I don't think it's a loss. (As a test: what would a node set look like if it had inexactly one node?) >> > Thanks, that's helpful. Certainly my _intent_ in offering new wording > was not to change 'set' vs. 'sequence' anywhere -- if I have done so > inadvertently please correct it. No comment on your wording was intended; when I sat back to think about the problem reported, I realized that I couldn't understand anything at all in the constraint being revised. Until I have a better idea (i.e. some idea) of what we would like to say, I am not ready to propose or evaluate any proposals for wording. > >> The subject/verb agreement problem and the ambiguous reference to "those >> node-sets" in clause 3 were introduced in XSD 1.0 ... > > Indeed, not a new problem. Still might be worth fixing, IMO. I agree; certainly worth doing, since they are the issue raised by the OP in the bug report. -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
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