Re: xs:anyURI and xml:base

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 
> > Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> >
> 
> >>If I may ask another confirmation, ... can you confirm that during the
> >>transformation between its lexical and value spaces, the xs:anyURI
> >>datatype doesn't pay any attention to xml:base declarations ?
> >>
> > That's correct.  That's for applications to do (or not do).
> 
> My purpose was not to try to trap you, but I have re-read the
> recommendation and it makes a clear and normative reference to XLink:
> 
> "The mapping from anyURI values to URIs is as defined in Section 5.4
> Locator Attribute of [XML Linking Language]"
> 
> and XLinks is also very clear (in the section 5.4 which is mentioned)
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-xlink-20001220/#link-locators
> 
> "If the URI reference is relative, its absolute version must be
> computed by the method of [XML Base] before use."
> 
> It's thus misleading if W3C XML Schema doesn't compute the absolute
> version and I would suggest to add a sentence mentioning it.

There's already a proposed Erratum on the go to address this point.
It will clarify that only para 3 of section 5.4 of XLink is meant to
be referenced.

ht
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Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 11:59:11 UTC