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Subject: Re: Defining longest match
/ Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com> was heard to say: | A little while ago, Paul raised the point [1] "Now that we are doing | normalization, I'm not sure "longest" is well-defined. In | any case, I think we have to define it explicitly. Are we counting | normalized or unnormalized characters..." | | I don't think this has been clarified in the spec. This was briefly discussed and we concluded that there was nothing to clarify. | For convenience, it | would be helpful if the longest match is based on the normalized value of | the system identifier/URI reference as this implies that the normalization | can occur as the internal catalog data model is created rather than having | to wait until after the elements are sorted. All of the comparison clauses say explicitly that matching is performed on normalized values, so I don't think any other comparison strategy is possible. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM | Before doing someone a favour, make sure that XML Standards Engineer | he isn't a madman.--Eug\'ene Labiche XML Technology Center | Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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