Re: Invalid namespace URI

Hi Peter,

thanks for the note. I will have a look into it but yes, the tool should
probably warn...

Ivan

Peter Mika wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We have found another corner case while looking at all the wonderful
> RDFa on the Web:
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> The page at [1] contains:
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> This
> work by <a
> xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns
> #
> "
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> which is probably not intended (the page is broken in some sense). When
> run through either the XSLT or the Distiller this
> becomes:
> 
>      <cc:attributionName xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns #">New
> Jersey State Auto
> Auction</cc:attributionName>
> 
> which is normalized [1] as
> xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns&#x20
> <http://creativecommons.org/ns&#x20>;#">
> 
> It seems to me that what you get is XML well-formed but not
> namespace-well-formed [2] because the attribute value is not a valid URI.
> 
> Not sure really what to do about this but the output is not very
> useful... should the tools raise some warning?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#Conformance
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> [1] http://www.njstateauto.com/preowned/index.cfm?make=Mercedes-Benz
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