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Subject: Re: Comments about the spec
James Clark wrote: > It doesn't quite concatenate adjacent strings. Rather it is a judgment > that asserts that a sequence contains no adjacent strings. Concationation is taken care of by the data model or creation of data in the data model from information sets. Is this your point? > Probably beter to call it something like > > textIsNormalized(m) > > to avoid confusion with the normalizeWhiteSpace() in 6.2.10. Or maybe > normalizeWhiteSpace should be collapseWhiteSpace instead. So, you would like to use textIsNormalized(m) to take care of ",". > > > 2. Data model > > > > The first itemized list says: > > "the sequence never contains two consecutive strings" > > That's talking about a sequence that represents the children of an element. > > > However, "m1, m2" as defined in 6.2.2 may create such > > two consecutive strings. > > Sequences in general are not so restricted. Note that 6.2.8 has > normalized(m) in the antecedent to ensure that you can't prove the validity > of something that isn't legal in the data model. > > What's the best way to clarify this? Cheers, Makoto
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