The strong Markov property with an uncountable index set

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The following definition of the strong Markov property, from Klenke's book, supposes an index set $I$ that is not necessarily countable. However, it is explicitly mentioned previously (following Lemma 9.23) that for uncountable $I$, $X_\tau$ is not always measurable. So how can i make sense of this definition in case $I$ isn't countable?

Definition 17.12 (p. 350) Let $I\subseteq\left[0,\infty\right]$ be closed under addition. A Markov process $\left(X_t\right)_{t\in I}$ with distributions $\left(\mathrm{P}_x,\space x\in E\right)$ has the strong Markov property iff for every a.s. finite stopping time $\tau$, every bounded $\mathcal{B}\left(E\right)^{\otimes I}-\mathcal{B}\left(\mathbb{R}\right)$ measurable function $f:E^I\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ and every $x\in E$ we have $$\mathrm{E}_x\left[\left.f\left(\left(X_{\tau+t}\right)_{t\in I}\right)\space\right|\mathcal{F}_\tau\right]=\mathrm{E}_{X_\tau}\left[f\left(X\right)\right]:=\intop_{E^I}\kappa\left(X_\tau,\mathrm{d}y\right)f\left(y\right)$$

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A sufficient condition is that the process $X$ is measurable, that is, the map $(\omega,t)\to X(\omega,t)$ should be measurable on the product space $(\Omega\times I,{\cal F}\times {\cal I})$ to $(E,{\cal E})$.

Then if $\tau:(\Omega,{\cal F})\to(I,{\cal I})$ is a (measurable) random time, the composition $$\begin{array}{ccccc} \omega &\to& (\omega,\tau(\omega))&\to& X(\omega,\tau(\omega))\\[3pt] {\cal F}&& {\cal F}\times{\cal I} &&{\cal E}\end{array} $$ is measurable.

The joint measurablility of $(\omega,t)\to X(\omega,t)$ is often proved by combining measurability of the slices $\omega\to X(\omega,t)$ with some sort of sample path regularity. For instance, left or right continuity is enough.