On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Christopher Henrich <chenr...@monmouth.com> > wrote: > >> The specification of the XML form for X3D requires that an MFString be >> enclosed in single quotes, and the enclosed strings must be enclosed in >> double quotes. Example: ' "alpha" "bravo" '. > > Huh? Single vs double quotes for delimiting attributes are a detail of the > way the XML is encoded to text; they have nothing to do with the schema of > the data in the file. You might as well say that X3D has to be displayed in > the Courier font to be valid. :) > > It _is_ reasonable for the spec to say that these attributes' values have to > contain double-quoted strings. But how those attributes are encoded into > syntactically correct XML markup is irrelevant. The encoder could use > single-quotes to delimit the attributes, or it could use double quotes and > then %-escape the inner double-quotes. The two are interchangeable from the > point of view of any proper XML parser.
Well, I agree. I just hope the X3D community cares about proper XML parsing. Christopher Henrich chenr...@monmouth.com mathinteract.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
