Re: [xml-dev] Unclear Part of XML 1.1 Specification

Daniel Zingaro wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the explanation of charData.
> 
> The document production has a '-' though:
> document ::=
> 
> prolog element Misc*
> -
> Char* RestrictedChar Char*
> 
>> From your explanation, though, I believe this means (please let me 
>> know if 
> 
> I'm wrong) "any string of the concatenation of prolog, element, and 
> misc*, except those strings with a restrictedChar in them".

Yes, I read the text of your message but not the title and was looking 
at the XML 1.0 specification. XML 1.1 also has at least two 
counter-examples to "precedence doesn't matter" (document is one of 
them). I agree with you, it's confusing. Though it's clear from the 
context that - has lower precedence than concatenation, that should have 
been noted in section 6.

You've got the meaning right.

Bob Foster