Subject: Re: [xsl] Does the count() function require access to the whole subtree? From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:17:51 -0500 |
Hi,
Given that, as Mike Kay points out, the spec does not deploy "overlap" as a formally defined technical term, then surely the spec can write around this in the nine places where the term is now used. The simple fact that, in more than one of those places, "overlap" is already glossed so that we understand it doesn't really mean "overlap" but something else, suggests that such rewriting should make for an improvement.
I accept Mike Sokolov's argument for why "overlap" might be acceptable in principle. Yes, part of what a specification does is provide a constraining context for the semantics of the terminology deployed in it. But I think in this case it stretches so far it breaks. Dimitre is correct about "overlap" here, and "nesting" (for example) is much better. (Nor is it partisans, such as myself, of approaches to markup that permit actual overlap that I am worried about. If the term becomes "overlap" I think we will be never be done explaining to newbies that even when branches "overlap" they never really overlap in any more normal sense.)
But the best new term I've learned in this thread has to be "bicycle shed".
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm perfectly comfortable with a replacement such as "... that no title element will ever contain anotherI think this is good.
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