On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Tim Showalter wrote:
> I'm sure that we should recommend a.b c.d NOT evaluate to a.bc.d, which
> strikes me as never the right thing. I hope we can at least remove that
> recommendation, but leave the "implementation-defined" language in place, and
> perhaps the a.b.c.d example.
Suggestion: since David has talking about doing a LIST recommendations
document, perhaps this should be passed to him and his document? Thus
making it not a base specification issue.
Am I correct in believing that we have concensus in recommending that,
giving a hierarchy delimiter of "/", that
tag LIST a/b c/d
SHOULD resolve to a/b/c/d or a/c/d, but not a/bc/d?
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