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Re: Choose your namespace (Was : Personal view)

From: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:53:41 +0100
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To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@microsoft.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
At 08:25 20/06/00 -0700, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
>a) What the comparison rules are:
>
>It is correct and sufficient if a basic consumer only uses octet-by-octet
>comparison taking into account relative URIs. However, it is also fully
>acceptable for the consumer to know about special normalization rules of a
>URI space and apply those if so desired. In particular, the URI spec
>describes normalization rules for commonly used constructs like DNS host
>names.

Apologies if I missed the answer to this...  what normalization rules are 
used by XPath when comparing two expanded-names under this proposal?
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Cheers,
John
Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 12:54:44 GMT

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