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Why is RelationalExpr left associative?
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- Subject: [xsl] Why is RelationalExpr left associative?
- From: Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:04:08 +0200 (MET DST)
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Dear XPath experts,
can anyone give me the reason why the productions for EqualityExpr
and RelationalExpr have been designed the way they are?
(See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-RelationalExpr )
The note in the specification about 3 > 2 > 1 talks about a possible
misinterpretation.
So the question is: why are these kinds of expressions allowed? Are
there any useful situations in which one can benefit?
I think formulating the production for RelationalExpr to be
nonassociative like this
RelationalExpr ::= AdditiveExpr
| AdditiveExpr '<' AdditiveExpr
| AdditiveExpr '>' AdditiveExpr
| AdditiveExpr '<=' AdditiveExpr
| AdditiveExpr '>=' AdditiveExpr
would avoid such "nonsense" 3 > 2 > 1 expressions.
(Dito for EqualityExpr and the example 0 = 0 = 0).
Thanks for giving me any insights :-)
Cheers,
Oliver
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