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Bug 29874 - [SER31] 5 XML Output Method
Summary: [SER31] 5 XML Output Method
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Serialization 3.1 (show other bugs)
Version: Candidate Recommendation
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2016-09-27 11:52 UTC by Tim Mills
Modified: 2016-10-14 14:44 UTC (History)
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Description Tim Mills 2016-09-27 11:52:47 UTC
"The XML output method serializes the normalized sequence as an XML entity that MUST satisfy the rules for either a well-formed XML document entity or a well-formed XML external general parsed entity, or both."

Would this read better as

"The XML output method serializes the normalized sequence as an XML entity that MUST satisfy the rules for either a well-formed XML document entity, a well-formed XML external general parsed entity, or both"


Further down, since the bullet points are sentences, should the preceding colon be a full stop?

"The result of serialization MUST be such that the reconstructed tree is the same as the result tree except for the following permitted differences:"
Comment 1 Andrew Coleman 2016-10-14 13:27:24 UTC
I fixed the first part, but I'm not so sure about the colon/full stop. Take a look at this:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/101406VerticalLists.htm  (section D.1)
Comment 2 Tim Mills 2016-10-14 14:44:41 UTC
(In reply to Andrew Coleman from comment #1)
> I fixed the first part, but I'm not so sure about the colon/full stop. Take
> a look at this:
> http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/101406VerticalLists.htm  (section
> D.1)

Me neither.  Perhaps it's worth asking what other editors are doing in similar situations and aiming for consistency between the XQuery specs.