The production rule for field-switch-character is defined as: "field-switch-character: ! one or two Latin letters" However, "Latin letters" is not defined in this specification. Are we to take this literally as only allowing the letters used in Latin, i.e., capital letters A-Z excluding J, U and W Or is meant the ISO 8859-1, the Latin-1 character set Or is something else meant

Proposed change: Provide a precise definition for this production rule.

2.16.1 [p1487]

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment GB-0240 (Modified: 2007-12-21) Agreed; the resolution to this comment is included in that for comments DE-0052 and FR-0074, which resulted in the complete replacement of the syntax in Part 4, §2.16.1, pages 1487­1489 by one defined using the notation from EBNF (as defined in ISO/IEC 14977:1996). Fixing the original syntax would have resulted in the following changes to Part 4, §2.16.1, page 1,489, lines 15­17: field-switch-character: ! any one or two Latin letters of the following: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z However, given the rewrite of the whole syntax, this change was incorporated in the new syntax, as follows: field-specific-switch= "\", character, [character], [field-argument] ; (* no whitespace is permitted after the backslash, also see definition of each field in §2.16.5 *) character= as defined by the production Char in the XML 1.0 specification, §2.2. field-argument= text | double-quote, text, double-quote ; text= character, {character} ; double-quote= ‘ " ‘ ; (* one double-quote character *) Similar Comments: BR-0014 , CA-0021 , DE-0068 , DK-0119 , FR-0195 , US-0248