Comma problem Re: ANSWERS to "What's wrong with XQuery" question

[Daniela Florescu]

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> It could be done with an extra-grammatical disambiguation rule not  
> unlike many of the rules we already have: if the next thing after  
> the ">" at the end of a direct constructor is immediately followed  
> by "<", treat the "<" as the start of another direct constructor  
> unless it's immediately followed by (space, "<", or "="). That's an  
> incompatibility: anyone writing (<foo/> <bar) would have to add a  
> space; but we've tolerated incompatibilities to highly-implausible  
> constructs in the past. No-one writes an element constructor in a  
> context where the result has to be immediately atomized.

I would be much in favor of this.

The fact that one can write a single XML element in XQuery, but not  
XML fragments, hunts me every time
I teach XQuery, and I am honestly tired of this.

Best regards
Dana