Re: [xdi] The simple realization that & is a context symbol

["=Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@xdi.org>]

Yes, it's actually pretty obvious, it was just one of those mental categorization issues that I hadn't been considering it a context symbol.

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org> wrote:

In XDI2, that's how it is, i.e. it's implemented as a context symbol:

https://github.com/projectdanube/xdi2/blob/master/core/src/main/java/xdi2/core/constants/XDIConstants.java

Markus

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:17 AM, =Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@xdi.org> wrote:

Joseph et al:

Don't ask me why, but when waking up this morning from jet lag in London, I was thinking about how to best explain the XDI context symbols and suddenly realized that I had never included & as a context symbol.

That might sound strange, since & as a context symbol cannot be followed by any other character, i.e., it always stands alone as the terminal context representing a literal value.

But it is still:

• A symbol
• That represents a context node
• That has a specific semantics

So it seems that we must include it in our list of context symbols, meaning we actually have 8 context symbols and not 7.

Does everyone agree?

If so, Joseph, I think we should reflect that in any text or table we have in the XDI Core spec summarizing context symbols.

=Drummond