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Subject: Negative values
This document describes negative values: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17329/IssueNumber20.ht ml It isn't explicit about the semantics of them. For example, it implies that negative and positive values can be combined in a single attribute (otherwise why say that the NOT operator only applies to a single value). But I would have thought that a negation of value A implies value B by definition. Therefore explicitly stating value B is redundant. audience="NOT paul" Means everybody but paul. Therefore saying "everybody but paul plus janice" is redundant. In programming language terms: If Audience!=paul OR audience=janice Although I am a fan of the goals of this feature, I am not convinced that we can work out the details in the time we have. Plus I think that it is a bit of scope creep beyond what the TC agreed to. The same goes for the scope attribute. Paul Prescod
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