FW: XML Core expects to publish a WG Note "Extending XLink 1.0"

FYI.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org] 
Sent: Friday, 14 January, 2005 5:30
To: Paul Grosso; chairs@w3.org
Cc: w3t-comm@w3.org; webreq@w3.org; timbl@w3.org; Steve Bratt
Subject: Re: XML Core expects to publish a WG Note "Extending XLink 1.0"

Hello Paul,

I have had a short look at the document. In general, it looks
very good, but I have some small comments, about proposal 3,
"Allow IRIs.".

First, the title of this proposal should be changed to something
like "Allow IRIs for XLink properties, such as role and arc types.".
This would make it much clearer that this is only one aspec related
to IRIs.

Second, there is the issue of upgrading xlink:href to use IRIs
more directly. The current spec for the value of the xlink:href
attribute is a very circumscript but simplified description of
what is essentially an IRI. Ideally, this would just be replaced
with a reference to the IRI spec (which should be issued as an
RFC very soon), but there are a few differences that have to
be carefully considered.

Independent of whether these changes can be made in the actual
document (with an apparent publication date of January 27, this
may be feasible or not), I hope that in particular the second
issue will noted for future work. I personally expect the
I18N Core WG to contact chairs when the IRI spec is published
to look at updating issues across specs.


Regards,    Martin.


At 07:20 05/01/14, Paul Grosso wrote:
 >
 >
 >The XML Core WG is planning to send in a publication request
 >for the following WG Note next week:
 >
 >Extending XLink 1.0
 >
 >The current WG draft is at:
 >http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2004/xmlcore/xlink11/xlink10-ext.html
 >
 >The estimated publication date: 27 January 2005
 >
 >There appears to be no specific process or review for a WG Note,
 >but with this message, the WG wishes to provide some "advanced
 >notice" to chairs before actually making the publication request.
 >
 >The WG is publishing this WG Note to document its suggestions
 >in light of some issues we've seen raised by the XLink user
 >community.  The WG has no plans to update this WG Note; at
 >this time, the XML Core WG has no XLink-related work item on
 >its agenda or charter.  Before any XLink-related work could
 >take place in the XML Core WG, the AC would have to approve
 >such a charter modification.
 >
 >Abstract
 >--------
 >This document describes some useful changes that could be
 >incorporated into an XLink 1.1 Specification.
 >
 >Status (boilerplate omitted)
 >----------------------------
 >This document is a W3C Working Group Note, made available by the
 >W3C XML Core Working Group as part of the XML Activity. The authors
 >of this document are the XML Core Working Group participants.
 >
 >This WG Note is being published for information purposes only.
 >The Working Group does not plan to issue updates and therefore
 >has no current plans or process by which to handle feedback.
 >
 >
 >Paul Grosso
 >Norman Walsh
 >for the XML Core WG

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