RE: URIs and strings (XML Schema comment on F/O)

Would a proposal a la
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Jan/0210.html
be acceptable?

Thanks
Michael (speaking for himself)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:19 PM
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: URIs and strings (XML Schema comment on F/O)
> 
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> This note is to ensure that your last-call issues list includes a
> question we raised already in our earlier review of the Functions and
> Operators specification; in our notes on that spec of last 1 August,
> it had item number 1.4 [1].  (I took an action to write you on this
> account some time ago.  My apologies for the delay, but I venture
> to hope that our concern will not come as a surprise to you.)
> 
> While we understand (even if we do not fully agree with) the reasoning
> which has led you to make all of the functions for operations upon
> URIs accept strings as arguments, we have not understood the reasoning
> which leads you to require that they raise an error if they are given
> an argument of type anyURI, and we respectfully suggest that you
> ensure that these functions can be called upon arguments of type
> anyURI without raising a type error, and that the results can where
> appropriate conveniently be coerced into type anyURI.
> 
> The status quo would have the effect of discouraging the use of the
> anyURI type and of encouraging users to lie to their processors by
> typing values as strings instead of typing them, more accurately and
> more usefully, as URIs.
> 
> with best regards,
> 
> -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
>  on behalf of the W3C XML Schema Working Group
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2003/07/xmlschema-fo-comments.html#d0e145
>

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