RE: [DRAFT] XML Core WG review of CSS Namespaces draft of 2006-08-28

Not counting Henry's question, it sounds good to me.

However, I'd prefer we delete the second sentence of
your introductory paragraph.  No need for us to triage
our concerns.  It's for the receiving WG to respond
to all of them.  For example, some of our WG members
expressed a greater concern that they reference NS 1.0/1.1 
normatively than the clarified normalization.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, 2006 August 31 21:35
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: [DRAFT] XML Core WG review of CSS Namespaces draft 
> of 2006-08-28
> 
> This is [the first draft of] the XML Core WG's review of the 
> 2006-08-28
> draft of the CSS Namespaces module.  We have two relatively 
> small concerns
> and one serious one.
> 
> 1) At the point in 3.3 where namespace prefixes are said to be
> case-insensitive, we'd like it pointed out (a) why this is so and (b)
> that it is not actually a problem with XML documents, whose prefixes
> *are* case-sensitive.
> 
> 2) Since this module is about namespaces, we believe it should make
> a normative, rather than an informative, reference to Namespaces 1.0
> and Namespaces 1.1.  Both are needed to handle both XML 1.0 
> and XML 1.1
> documents.  In addition, the references should be to the 
> undated (latest)
> versions of these documents rather than to specific dated editions.
> 
> 3) The last paragraph of 3.1 is very unclear.  We believe it 
> is essential,
> and a consequence of XML Namespaces 1.x, that namespace names 
> must never
> be normalized in any way.  The reference to string syntax vs. url()
> syntax is unclear to us: whichever syntax is permitted, no 
> normalization
> should be done.  We consider this a point that must be 
> clarified in the
> next draft.
> 
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