- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:00:03 -0700
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > C. M. Sperberg-McQueen writes: > >> 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?) > > It has two nodes. The text says "one", not "one or more" or "at least one". When a child says "May I have a cookie?" and a parent answers "you may have one", the parent does not mean "you may have one or more." A single syllable actually does the job here. We do not need four. But this is all wasted talk about a trivial side point; the presence or absence of 'exactly' does not make the difference between a clear text and the text we now have. Dropping or adding it certainly makes a difference, but recasting the constraint so that it can be understood without ambiguity is I think more important. -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
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