- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:47:01 -0500
- To: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Hello Liam, On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:27:08AM -0500, Liam Quin wrote: > The XML Query Working Group has considered the following message: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003Oct/0096.html > > The following is a response from the Working Group. > > > I believe XQuery is missing an important feature; the ability to > > serialize a document in URI form, so that the resulting URI may be used > > as an argument to the GET method. > > The XML Query Working Group noted that there is already a standard method > for serializing strings (such as queries) as URIs: RFC 2396. We > also already provide the escape-uri function to reflect this. URI-escaping should work fine as an encoding, I expect, and I thank the WG for making that decision. But, what now remains absent from the XQuery specification is a normative dependency on it as the canonical encoding to be used for XQuery documents serialized into URI form. > We have closed this issue for now; please let us know if this > disposition is not satisfactory. Sorry, it's not. 8-( > > Thanks! Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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