RE: Implementing " and ' in literals

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kay Michael wrote:

> You're saying that a construct like "@comment()" is "total nonsense". I
> don't think it's any more "total nonsense" than (say) "number('London')" or
> "/.." is. It's well-defined: it means "find all comment nodes on the
> attribute axis", and the result is always an empty node-set. And Saxon, at
> least, implements it correctly and conformantly.

Fair point, I guess... but I'd rather a parser say "syntax error" at that
point, than let it pass, simply because while it parses OK and can be
implemented, it means nothing, and should at the very least throw a
warning. But you're right - the grammar "works".

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