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Bug 1706 - [FS] editorial: 5.3 Boundary-space Declaration
Summary: [FS] editorial: 5.3 Boundary-space Declaration
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formal Semantics 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: All All
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jerome Simeon
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2005-07-18 07:17 UTC by Michael Dyck
Modified: 2007-01-16 17:35 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Dyck 2005-07-18 07:17:10 UTC 
5.3 Boundary-space Declaration

"The xmlspace declaration"
    s/xmlspace/boundary-space/

"is not specified formally as the Formal Semantics is defined on the Core
language"
    No, *inference rules* are defined on the Core language. The Formal
    Semantics (which includes normalization!) *is* defined on the full
    XQuery syntax.
    So one could imagine normalization rules that deal with preserving or
    stripping boundary space.

"the Core language, which is an abstract, not concrete, syntax
    What do you think is *not* concrete about the Core syntax? It's not as
    featureful as the full language, but I'd say it's just as concrete.

"and is typically the result of parsing phase"
    Huh? The Core syntax is the result of parsing? That certainly doesn't
    agree with the processing model.
Comment 1 Jerome Simeon 2006-04-10 18:29:55 UTC 
Just sticked to "The semantics of a boundary-space declaration is not specified formally".

Thanks for pointing out the various problems in that paragraph.

- Jerome