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

[David Lee]

Hurts me every time I write an XML file as well !!!


David A Lee

On Jul 31, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Daniela Florescu <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:

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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.
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> I would be much in favor of this.
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> 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.
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> Best regards
> Dana
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