Thanks for raising that again. > As the 2.0 standard is over four years old, I found it a bit unlikely > that such an error would have gone unnoticed for this long
probably no one tried using the hex literal form so never noticed the schema didn't allow it. I'd > * There appears to be no information on how to report errors. > (Unlike the case with the MathML standards, which carry a notice > asking that errors are reported to [email protected].) I think this list is it although I agree the website, and prefereably the document itself ought to have said /say that. > (It also seems to disallow multiple whitespace > characters in sequence, which strikes me as unnecessarily restrictive; > consider indentation in an integer wrapped over several lines.) I'm sure the intention was to allow multiple spaces here, so that's a schema bug. on allowing hex > Since this change is not noted in the list of changes, I presume it is > the schema that has an error. I guess so, although I wonder if there was an explict decision to change this for OM2 and just allow decimal, but that got implemented in the schema but not the text. I suppose I should try to search for minutes of meetings around that time... On the other hand since the text of the standard has stood for so long now, perhaps we should stick with hex even if the intention was to drop it and change the schema as you suggest, I suppose pattern = "(\s*(-\s*)?[0-9]+(\s|[0-9]+)*) | (\s*(-\s*)?x\s*[0-9A-F]+(\s|[0-9A-F]+)*)"}} David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Om mailing list [email protected] http://openmath.org/mailman/listinfo/om
