- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:13:56 +0200
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
Reading the latest XLink Candidate Recommendation [XLk] to cover it for XMLfr [Xfr], I came over some lines which rang a bell : > The value of the role or arcrole attribute must be a URI reference as > defined in [IETF RFC 2396]. The URI reference identifies some resource > that describes the intended property. When no value is supplied, no > particular role value is to be inferred. Disallowed URI reference > characters in these attribute values must be specially encoded as > described in 5.4 Locator Attribute (href). The context is different than namespaces but basically I see it as still using a URI reference to identify an abstract type and I wonder if the spec shouldn't answer questions such as : - are relative references allowed ? - how should they be processed ? - when are 2 semantic attributes considered as equal ? to avoid letting the answers to the application designers. This is a question for the linking WG and I have already posted [XLC] it as such. If I bring it here, it's because I wonder if the answer shouldn't be coherent with the one which is given to the namespaces URIs and that this forum has already worked a lot on a similar subject. IMHO, it would be preferable to keep them consistent (the concepts would be easier to explain to XML users and to implement in XML tools). Eric [XLk] : http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/ [Xfr] : http://xmlfr.org/actualites/tech/000706-0002.xml [XLC] : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2000JulSep/0013.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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