RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Text of Regex

["Bezaire, Benoit" <bbezaire@ptc.com>]

I agree with Dieter. The spec shouldn't have wording about functionality
which isn't available. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Weidenbrueck, Dieter [mailto:dweidenbrueck@ptc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:00 AM
To: Galt, Stuart A; cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Text of Regex

Stuart and all,

you suggest for 2.7:
 
There is no mechanism to load the entire DOM tree by use of a "*" and
there is no built in functionality to retrieve nodes based on the
results of a regular expression applied to an attribute.  An example on
how to do this is described in Appendix F.

Does that mean that a compliant viewer becomes uncompliant if it
provides such functionality?
Will there be a test for the lack of a "*" functionality?
I am unsure whether we should describe in a spec the functionality that
is NOT there unless it is normative, e.g.
...a compliant implementation MUST NOT allow for usage of "*"... or
similar.

Comments?

Regards,
Dieter

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