- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:31:02 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, public-iri@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Martin Duerst wrote: >>> For things that could be expressed in the ABNF of RFC 3987 but are not >>> currently, I would appreciate if a proposal is made to change the ABNF >>> to fully express the constraints. >> Why don't you go ahead and make such a proposal? Ideally, it would be >> modularized so that it addresses different issues separately. > > I have sufficient experience with "Grammar says this but spec says > that"-style discussions that I avoid them as much as possible. The IRI grammar is prefaced by a note to the effect that additional constraints apply. Nothing that is illegal by the grammar is made legal by the prose. That seems clear enough, and leaves the grammar as helpful. Necessary but not sufficient. Jeremy
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