Re: IRI versus URI terminology

Lofton Henderson wrote:
> Hearing no negative feedback, I went ahead and changed the parameter 
> names to 'namespaceIRI', 'fileIRI', and 'iri'.  See #3, #4, #5 below.
> 
> -Lofton.
> 
> At 12:08 PM 6/3/2006 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>> I have made changes [1] -- more or less as proposed in the below 
>> copied email.  Have a look especially at 3.1.1.1, revised to have some 
>> strong similarities to current SVG Tiny 1.2 wording.
>>
>> [1] _http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/drafts/current-editor/__
>>
>> _Questions/comments:
>>
>> 1.) 3.1.1.4 is the trickiest part, because IRI and URI both enter into 
>> the equation.  Does it look okay?

Looks good to me.
>>
>> 2.) I changed the text usage "namespace URI" to "namespace IRI".  Is 
>> that correct?  (I.e., "Namespaces in XML" does allow IRI?)

yes
[Definition: An XML namespace is identified by an IRI reference; ..."

see
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-names11-20040204/#concepts





-- 
Thierry Michel
W3C

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:53:12 UTC