Re: XLink 1.1: 5.4 "URI reference" unclear

* Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
>| Dear XML Core Working Group,
>|
>|   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 5.4 notes "If
>| the URI reference is relative, its absolute version must be computed by
>| the method of [XML Base] before use." It is unclear which "URI
>| reference" is referred to here, please change the draft such that this
>| is clarified.
>
>I have amended the draft as follows:
>
><p>If the value of the <att>href</att> attribute is a relative URI,
>its absolute version
><termref def="dt-must">must</termref> be computed by the method of
><bibref ref="xbase"/> before use.</p>

What is a "relative URI"? What happens if the href attribute value is
not such a "relative URI" but e.g. contains a space or a non-ascii
character?
-- 
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ 

Received on Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:22:44 UTC