red/green XML

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
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> That is why relative URIs are excluded.
> If no relative URIs are used, then red and green algorithms match.
> I can see no alternative as there seems to be a resistance on this list to
> absolutizing relative URIs.
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>
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> >Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> >>
> >> XPath does not need to be re-issued as it will interwork, as relative
> >> URIs are excluded.  Software which absolutizes the URI-reference
> >> and uses the URI will be legal. So will software which compares as
> >> strings.  Yes, it is is a compromise.
> >>
> >

	Perhaps I'm confused about terminology. The previous/lower statement
discussed absolutizing URI-references... doesn't this imply relative-URIs?
The following statemtent "So will software which compares as strings." is
also about relative URIs?
	There also exists a red/green problem with absolutization. It depends on
whether a parser implements XBase. A document which is parsed using an XBase
conformant parser might not be well formed (red XML), while the same
document parsed with a current parser will be well formed (green XML).

	The red/green problem is my (show stopper) problem with absolutization.

Jonathan Borden

Received on Saturday, 3 June 2000 17:49:41 UTC