RE: issue-67 (Re: Comment on ITS 2.0 specification WD)

Hi Felix, all,

> Understand, but I disagree with your conclusion and would foresee 
> a different effect. Anyway, if we cannot convince the implementers (= you 
> and Karl) to make a fully compliant implementaiton there is no sense 
> to continue discussing 3).

It depends on what you call an 'implementation'. I'm sure we can make an ITS processor check that a XSD RE syntax is ok or not.
But that is would be a mostly pointless exercise in real life. What matters is that the application using the ITS data understand or not the regex. We cannot have a test for that. So we could have "compliant" ITS processors feeding real consumer applications that don't work with the 'compliant' data. That is what worries me.


> For 2) we could indeed try to formulate the pattern based on 
> the four items at 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2012Aug/0296.html
> after "fully interoperable:". I don't know if this would be easy, though
> - do you or somebody else want to give it a try?

If we go for #2, I'd rather wait to see if a regex guru can try first.

cheers,
-yves

Received on Monday, 7 January 2013 04:26:22 UTC