Re: [XML-URI] HTTP extensions framework comparison

At 09:01 20/07/00 -0700, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
>Very similarly, an application that only does case-sensitive comparison of
>the full http URI will not know that
>"http://www.informatix.co.uk/headers/" and
>"http://WWW.INFORMATIX.CO.UK/headers/" are equal, but the result is
>exactly the same as if it didn't know the extension in the first place.
>The important thing to note is that the stupid app *does* interoperate as
>it knows that it received an XML namespace and it knows that it doesn't
>know about it.
>
>This of course applies directly to the XML NS debate.

You are saying, then, that the XPath REC should permit, _but not require_, 
XPath implementations (including XSLT) to normalise NSURIs in a scheme 
dependent manner when comparing names?

This can clearly result in a given XML source/XSLT stylesheet combination 
producing different results depending on the normalisations performed by 
the particular XPath implementation.

I beg to differ.  I believe this to be behaviour which should be 
standardised, and not left implementation defined.
--
Cheers,
John

Received on Thursday, 20 July 2000 12:48:20 UTC