Re: XML resource identifiers - time to rethink?

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 15:15 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> A further problem has been pointed out ([1] and following thread) -- I
> can't make our next call, but Philippe le Hegaret is checking with Ian
> Jacobs to see what our options are if we decided we wanted to rapidly
> publish a definition of XRIs separately, and then put normative
> references to that definition in xml:base 2e and XLink 1.1, without
> resetting their Process state if at all possible.

Talked to Ian and here is his opinion: don't publish the definition in a
non-TR document (it's not normative, no guarantees, etc.). His
preference is to duplicate the definition (pointing out in each one that
they'll be kept aligned).

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:50:33 UTC