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Bug 1366 - [XQuery] some editorial comments on 1 Introduction
Summary: [XQuery] some editorial comments on 1 Introduction
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XQuery 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Don Chamberlin
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Whiteboard: grammar
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Reported: 2005-05-11 07:10 UTC by Michael Dyck
Modified: 2005-07-01 00:31 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Dyck 2005-05-11 07:10:04 UTC 
1 Introduction

"using the same Basic EBNF notation used in [XML 1.0]"
    The 'B' in "Basic" should not be capitalized.  A.1 says "simple".
    [Leftover from qt-2004Feb0317-01]

"Unless otherwise noted (see A.2 Lexical structure), whitespace is not
significant in the grammar."
    Change "in the grammar" to "in queries".

"In the grammar productions in this document, nonterminal symbols are
underlined"
    Actually, it looks like every named symbol (terminal or non-) is underlined,
    so change "nonterminal" to "named".

"Certain productions (including the productions that define DecimalLiteral,
DoubleLiteral, and StringLiteral) employ a regular-expression notation."
    "Certain productions"? They *all* employ a regular-expression notation!
    That's what EBNF *is*: the right-hand side of each production is a regular
    expression over the symbols of the grammar.

[91] FunctionaCall ::= ...
    FunctionCall should be a link (underlined).
Comment 1 Don Chamberlin 2005-07-01 00:30:47 UTC 
Michael,
Thanks for your thorough reading and comments. Since you have labeled these 
suggestions as editorial, I have exercised some discretion and applied them 
where I found them helpful.
Regards,
Don Chamberlin