- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:12:09 +0200
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "public-iri@w3.org" <public-iri@w3.org>
* Dan Connolly wrote: >On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 10:12 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote: > >> However, “Web Address” (or “Hypertext Reference”, as has been >> suggested) is defined as a sequence of BYTES which in turn have a >> CHARACTER ENCODING which is taken from the DOCUMENT or SCRIPT in >> which it is embedded. > >No, it's a sequence of characters _plus_ another character encoding. Both characterisations are inaccurate. The character encoding is a property of the context where a string is processed and ultimately dereferenced; it is not a property of the string itself. If it were you would generally expect the property to be maintained e.g. when an element node is copied from one document to another which is not the case. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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