Re: simple redraft Re: Environment Variable Retrieval Spec

Uche and I just met up at the XML Prague conference and discussed way
forward with EXSLT in general. We will make an announcement on general
way forward for EXSLT (though this might take a few weeks).

I Will make sure that this is folded into things.

ta, J

On 17 Jun 2007 23:23:35 +0100, Colin Paul Adams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John L Clark <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     John> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:16:08PM -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>     >> I agree.  Colin does raise an important point, but I think the
>     >> only really sane thing to do is to make the matching
>     >> implementation specific.  Yeah, this isn't the best for
>     >> compatibility, but I think there's not really much to be done
>     >> about it.
>
>     John> I've added statements to the specification to this effect.
>     John> I've attached the new draft and its HTML view to this email,
>     John> for your ongoing review.
>
>     John> With respect to compatibility, I think it's acceptable to
>     John> advise users who are interested in portability that they
>     John> should craft the function call carefully on case-insensitive
>     John> systems.  For example, they can choose to use
>     John> `system-property("env:HOME")` instead of
>     John> `system-property("env:Home")`, even if both might work on a
>     John> particular system.  Of course, this requires them to be
>     John> aware of the nuances on their system and on other possible
>     John> target systems, but I don't think there's any way for us to
>     John> help relieve that.
>
> Whatever happened to this? The system module still does not appear to
> have been published.
> --
> Colin Adams
> Preston Lancashire
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