Re: SVG12: IRI Processing rules and xlink:href

On Thursday, June 9, 2005, 8:47:14 PM, Bjoern wrote:

BH> * Chris Lilley wrote:
>>BH> (XLink 1.0, which defines xlink:href, refers to RFC 2396 though, SVG
>>BH> Tiny 1.2 is not compatible with XLink 1.0 or SVG 1.1 in this regard)
>>
>>This oversimplifies. The XLink 1.0 href attribute does not contain an
>>RFC 2396 URI. It contains a string (what would nowadays be called an
>>IRI) which is processed to produce a URI (which is nowadays defined by
>>RFC 3986). So the difference here is that SVG 1.2 defines the process of
>>converting an IRI to a URI by reference to the URI specification; while
>>SVG 1.1 (and XLink 1.0, and XML Schema) all had copy and paste versions
>>of that conversion process as there was no stable IRI specification to
>>refer to at that time.

BH> Yes. And the algorithm defined in RFC 3987 produces different
BH> results than those defined in XML 1.0, XML Schema 1.0, SVG 1.1, HTML
BH> 4.01, XML Catalogs, XInclude, XPointer, etc. which produce
BH> equivalent results.

Because international DNS was not included in the copy paste versions.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead