- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 15:38:01 -0400
- To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org, "sandra.martinez" <sandra.martinez@nist.gov>
NIST test 33 points to a subresource that doesn't exist using an element
scheme:
<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
href="../ents/ptrtst.xml#element(chapter)"/>
It claims this is a fatal error. I don't think this is obvious based on
section 4.1. Since an XPointer may select multiple nodes from an XML
document, it seems reasonale that it may also select nothing. The
XPointer element framework spec states "failure to identify an element
results simply in no subresource being identified by this pointer part
rather than an XPointer Framework error." Thus I'm not sure that this
should really throw a fatal error rather than simply including nothing.
If it is the intention that this throw a fatal error, then section 4.1
of the XInclude spec should spell this out more explicitly.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Received on Saturday, 7 June 2003 15:32:33 UTC