Subject: Re: number format test From: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:07:59 +0900 |
Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> wrote: >Saxon currently "supports" a numbering sequence starting with any alphabetic >character, though many of these sequences are not especially useful. By >default, the sequence consists of all consecutive Unicode characters up to >the next non-alphabetic one. For example, a token of "x" gives you the >sequence "x", "y", "z", "xx", "xy", "xz" etc. While this might not be what >the above sentence envisaged, I believe this behaviour is conformant. Imagine, if roman number is not supported, the sequence I J K L M N O P Q R S T... is generated instead of I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII... Is it better than the sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12...? This simplified example is not so good. The latin alphabet is small and its codepoint order is well known. But the CJK ideographs are not so -- the sequence 一 丁 丂 七... is nonsense, 1 2 3 4... is much better than the unexpected sequence. (there are several CJK characters representing "1", not only 一) Unknown numbering sequence should not be "supported", I believe. MURAKAMI Shinyu murakami@xxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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