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Subject: Re: [office] Errata in RelaxNG schema


Hi Michael,

I see... you're right. I've written to James Clark to report the problem
with Trang. And yes, we definitely shouldn't break the schema to suit
the broken validators...

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Mon, 2006-04-09 at 09:13 +0200, Michael Brauer wrote:
> In my opinion, the current schema is correct, and it would be wrong to esacpe 
> the '$' characters.
> 
> Regular expressions are defined in appendix F of the XSD specification:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#regexs
> 
> Rule [9] defines characters and meta characters. The "$" here is not in the 
> meta characters, but a normal character. It is further not included in the 
> single char escapes define in rule [24]. So, rule [9] allows us to use the 
> "$" without escpaing it, and rule [24] actually forbids us to do so.
> 
> However, many validators in fact have problems with the fact that "$" is a 
> normal character. My assumption is that they reuse regular expression 
> implementations which are not tailored to XSD, and therefore treat "$" as a 
> meta character. These are bugs in the validators that we cannot work-around 
> in the schema.
> 
> Michael
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