Re: <access> and IRI equivalence

On 26 Mar 2009, at 14:44, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:16 +0100, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>  
> wrote:
>> 1. I think it's a good thing to phrase this in terms of the BNF from
>> 3986 and 3987.  I don't think it's obvious that this piece of the  
>> spec
>> needs to reuse the HTML URI parser.
>
> AFAICT "that" parser is used for HTTP, CSS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest,  
> DOM APIs, etc.

I phrased this poorly.  The question at hand is whether the spec needs  
a dependency on HTML's use of URI references, or whether a reference  
to the URI spec is sufficient.  I suspect that the latter is in fact  
the case; implementations would still be free to be a bit more lenient.

Received on Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:51:13 UTC