Re: XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2006 October 16

Konrad, thanks for your comments.

> * Please, change <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" 
> http-equiv="Content-Type"> to <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" 
> http-equiv="Content-Type"> otherwise the TOC looks like in the 
> attachment "TOC.PNG" in my Browser.

This seems to be a problem with the diffspec stylesheet, which is
inserting a meta element in addition to the one automatically
produced by the XSLT processor.  Norm?

> * How about changing the last sentence in section 5.2 "Granularity of 
> base URI information" to
> """
> The base URI of an element bearing an |xml:base| attribute having a 
> value that is not a valid XML Resource Identifier is undefined and SHOULD
> cause an error on URI resolution.
> """

The sentence comes from an erratum agreed in 2004.  Changing it in the
way you suggest would amount to a new erratum.  I don't recall why
we decided it was application-dependent - does anyone?

> * May I further suggest to add the following sentence to section 5.4 
> "Interpretation of same-document references".
> """
> Hence, |xml:base="" or ||xml:base="#fragment"| do not have any effect 
> and SHOULD not be used.
> """

It seems a bit strange to say the people SHOULD NOT use a value just
because it's useless.  And xml:base="foo" is just as useless.  But it
might be a good idea to add a note that some implementations implement
this incorrectly, so it should (lower-case) be avoided.

-- Richard