[Bug 8953] URL decomp. IDL attributes when parsing fails

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8953





--- Comment #13 from Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  2010-02-18 09:20:46 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > It appears I was mistaken. I agree that the spec does define this case (because
> > a string is an "absolute URL" as defined in the spec if and only if parsing it
> > succeeds.)
> 
> What confused me here is that "absolute URL" is *not* defined to be a URL that
> happens to be absolute, but comes with additional constraints. Not sure that
> this is a good idea; and also I'm very sure that we wouldn't want to use that
> terminology in IRIbis.
> 

The way the spec arranged things initially confused me and Anne too, though
only because we didn't notice the "if the input is an absolute URL" bits. I
could imagine IRIbis exposing an interface that makes this more clear.


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