Re: CURIEs: A proposal

Small clarifications based upon my own, incomplete understanding and the 
embryonic state of the XHTML Working Group activities in this area are 
below:

Misha Wolf wrote:
>
> 7   Each language must specify:
>
> 7a  the syntactic constraints (if any) on the prefix and suffix.
>
>     XHTML    : prefix = any; suffix = IRI
>   
XHTML: prefix = NCNAME; suffix = IRI; prefix can be omitted
>    
> 7d  whether and, if so, how the prefix and suffix are combined to 
>     form an IRI.
>
>     XHTML    : Plain concatenation
>   
Note that we mean this quite literally.  Since the prefix mapping is 
permitted to be anything, this can be 
prefix='http://www.example.com/partial_' and 
suffix='folder/datapoint/item' to render 
'http://www.example.com/partial_folder/datapoint/item'
>     
> 7f  whether the dereferencing of the IRI mapped to the prefix is 
>     required to yield a useful and relevant information resource.
>
>
>     XHTML    : Not required
>   
because it is not required by XML Namespaces, and also because we 
believe the prefix could be a partial, non-sensical IRI without the suffix.

Otherwise, great summary Misha.  Thanks for the hard work!

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Received on Friday, 23 June 2006 21:50:52 UTC