- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:20:26 +0100
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
* Martin Duerst wrote: >Hello John, Bjoern, > >I agree with Bjoern that <> isn't really that much used >as a delimiter for URIs/IRIs anymore. We need some way to delemit URIs and as John said, [<>"] are appropriate characters to delimit them. If you allow them to appear literal inside URI references, it get's impossible to delimit them. Worse enough there is already software that does not treat characters like the above as delimiters, e.g. the W3C Mailing List Archive does not deal properly with <>, e.g. http://www.example.org/?<foo> should cause the rest of this mail beeing a link. Asking the other way round, what's URI users benefit to allow these characters in IRI references? >As for spaces, the main pressure to allow them came from XPointer. How to convince them they are wrong? What's IETF's position on allowing white-space in identifiers?
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