Re: Question about the description of the simplification of RelaxNG

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 19:03, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
> > I was confused by rng2srng [1] which does perform this simplification
> > (relying on Jing, it probably does other additional simplifications).
> > 
> > [1] http://www.kohsuke.org/relaxng/rng2srng/
> > 
> > Kohsuke Kawaguchi might want to add a word mentioning that rng2srng does
> > more than what's described in the spec.
> 
> Aaa. Sorry about that. I checked the document, but it doesn't actually say
> it will do the simplification as defined in the spec. It simply says it
> will turn a RELAX NG grammar into the equivalent simple syntax.

I think that it's the "the" in "the equivalent simple syntax" which has
been the source of my confusion :-) ... Since there is a normative
description of a simple syntax in the spec, I have assumed that it was
"the" one! 
> 
> But you are probably right that I should clarify what it means by the
> equivalence.

And replace "the" by "an" :-) ...

Eric
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