- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:57:29 -0500
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: public-xml-id@w3.org
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:46:35AM -0500, Karl Dubost wrote: > > Hi, > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-id-20041109/#processing > > [[[ > > 1. The attributeʼs value is normalized according to the rules for > attribute-value normalization on attributes of type ID. For xml:id > processors operating on an infoset or some other output from an XML > parser, the value will already be normalized, but unless the parser > normalized it as a value of type ID it will still be necessary for the > processor to trim leading and trailing space (#x20) characters and > replace sequences of space characters by a single space. > ]]] > > I encourage Daniel Veillard to translate this sentence in French to see > the difficulties of understanding it. <mauvaise_foi>there is 2 sentences, unless something changed in english I didn't noticed.</mauvaise_foi> <extreme_mauvaise_foi>Sounds clear to me !</extreme_mauvaise_foi> > Please make clear, short and simple statements. The sentence is too > long and we loose the meaning of it in the middle. More seriously, I agree. This is just the result of trying to remind the reader in the same sentence what the attribute ID value normalization means. Splitting the second sentence in two to separate when that operation might be needed and what it consists of should make it easier to understand. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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