Re: Boeing XRI Use Cases

noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> John Bradely writes:
> 
>> A IRI is NOT a URI,  it would be WRONG to use a IRI in an XML 
>> document for name-spacing.
>>
>> The XML specs are clear and unambiguous use a URI.
> 
> Well, they do seem to me to be clear, but I read them differently than you 
> do I'm afraid ;-).  From the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation [1]:
> 
> "Abstract: XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element 
> and attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by 
> associating them with namespaces identified by IRI references."
> 
> and indeed the formal definition [2] says:
> 
> "[Definition: An XML namespace is identified by an IRI reference 
> [RFC3987]; element and attribute names may be placed in an XML namespace 
> using the mechanisms described in this specification. ]"
> ...

But <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/> is the namespaces specification 
for XML 1.1, right? <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names> (from the same 
date) still refers to RFC 3986 (URI).

BR, Julian