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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Adding to Andreas comment, we should also remember that the JSON language specification requires strings to be double quoted too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Roy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> x3d-public [mailto:x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andreas Plesch<br><b>Sent:</b> 27 April 2017 13:40<br><b>To:</b> Don Brutzman <brutzman@nps.edu><br><b>Cc:</b> X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public@web3d.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [x3d-public] MFString quoting [was: interesting sample]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Don Brutzman <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>On 4/26/2017 7:10 AM, Andreas Plesch wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>On Apr 25, 2017 11:16 PM, "Michalis Kamburelis"<br><br> So<br><br> " ' MFString or SFString ? ' "<br><br> is either<br> - an incorrect MFString (you cannot use ' to delimit parts within MFString)<br><br>Yes, you are right, that is incorrect.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>agreed that is incorrect<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>But that brings up SFStrings.<br>When not used as part of an MFString, they still have the double quote requirement while XML allows both single or double quotes.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>agreed for SFString values. Equivalent constructs:<br><br>XML<br> <WorldInfo title='Hello world!'/> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal> <WorldInfo title="Hello world!"/><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are you implying that <WorldInfo title='Hello world!'/> should be a conforming X3D XML encoding (of the WorldInfo node with a title field value) ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think you may since the X3D XML encoding does not get to define the outer quotes of an attribute value, meaning that we are all pretty much on the same page.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>ClassicVRML and VRML encodings do not permit such variation, simply<br><br> WorldInfo {<br> title "Hello world!"<br> }<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps the X3D XML encoding spec. should retain a paragraph on best practices for consistency with the VRML encoding.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Andreas<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>