- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:32:30 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de, xml-names-editor@w3.org
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. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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