Re: last call comments, usage of IRI rather than URI

On Friday, November 29, 2002, 1:37:47 AM, Richard wrote:


>> It has been demonstrated that using IRI (refs) as namespace names breaks
>> existing XML applications (such as XML Schema, schemaLocation attribute) and
>> APIs (JAXP). I'd like to understand why this isn't considered a problem.

RT> IRIs that contain spaces can't be used with the schemaLocation
RT> attribute, but IRIs in general can, as far as I can see.  It seems to
RT> me that IRIs with spaces have disadvantages in other contexts too (eg
RT> in plain text), and that we should either not allow spaces in IRIs or
RT> live with the problem, rather than not using IRIs at all.

To clarify - spaces that form part of the S production in XML. Other
spaces (ideographic space, non breaking space, etc) do not have an
effect on parsing of XML attribute values that use spaces as a list
item separator.


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 Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org