ISSUE-426: zero or more characters?

zero or more characters?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

webvtt1

Raised by:

Addison Phillips

Opened on:

2015-02-26

Description:

bugzilla: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28260


http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#webvtt-file-structure

A number of tokens are described as being a sequence of "zero or more" of something. Here are a few examples:

--
A WebVTT cue settings list consist of a sequence of zero or more WebVTT cue settings in any order, separated from each other by one or more U+0020 SPACE characters
--
A WebVTT cue setting name and a WebVTT cue setting value each consist of any sequence of zero or more characters other than U+000A LINE FEED (LF) characters and U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) characters except that the entire resulting string must not contain the substring "-->" (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN).
--

A zero-length string seems problematic, since each space character can be considered to separate one such zero-length entity. Should these be reconsidered to be "one or more..."?

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1. [Bug 28260] [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2015-11-23)
2. [Bug 28260] [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2015-06-08)
3. [Bug 28260] [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2015-06-08)
4. [Bug 28260] [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2015-06-01)
5. [Bug 28260] [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from bugzilla@jessica.w3.org on 2015-03-24)
6. Re: [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com on 2015-03-22)
7. [webvtt] zero or more characters? [I18N-ISSUE-426] (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-20)
8. [minutes] Internationalization WG telecon 2015-03-19 (from ishida@w3.org on 2015-03-19)
9. I18N-ISSUE-426: zero or more characters? ⓟ [WebVTT] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2015-02-26)

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