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Hello Eve, "Eve L. Maler" wrote: > > Hello Eric-- I wanted to let you know that I spoke to Michael > Sperberg-McQueen about using XML Schema to validate XPointer "IDREFs." He > served in two capacities for the purposes of the discussion: XML > Coordination Group chair and XML Schema chair. > > We concluded that: > > - XPointer cannot change because our charter requires us to define a > fragment identifier language for a URI reference, which means that the # is > unavoidable. Yes, it's a good reason ! > - If there is any change needed, it might be with XML Schema, related to > its key functionality (which currently relies on XPath). There might need > to be a broadening of its XPath usage, or it might need a special case, or... . The answer from James Clark to a similar question about XSLT [1] is showing how the XSLT document() [2] function is solving this issue. Unfortunately, document() isn't a XPath function which would have solved the issue for XML Schema, but the schema WG might still be interested to consider a similar mechanism to allow access to URIs including a fragment identifier. > - At this stage, Michael would like to treat the issue as something to be > investigated during XML Schema's CR period. Agreed. > Does this sound about right to you, or have I mistaken the technicalities > of your issue? Thanks-- No, you've given a perfect summary. Thanks Eric [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xsl-editors/2000JulSep/0064.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#document > Eve > -- > Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 > Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center eve.maler @ east.sun.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wednesday, 18 October 2000 02:23:04 GMT
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