- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:13:59 -0400
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Looks like we might want to consider this point when we issue the next edition of Namespaces 1.0. paul -----Original Message----- From: www-tag-request@w3.org On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Wednesday, 2008 August 06 2:01 To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com Cc: John Bradley; Booth, David (HP Software - Boston); Henry S. Thompson; www-tag@w3.org Subject: Re: Boeing XRI Use Cases noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > John Bradely writes: > >> A IRI is NOT a URI, it would be WRONG to use a IRI in an XML >> document for name-spacing. >> >> The XML specs are clear and unambiguous use a URI. > > Well, they do seem to me to be clear, but I read them differently than you > do I'm afraid ;-). From the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation [1]: > > "Abstract: XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element > and attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by > associating them with namespaces identified by IRI references." > > and indeed the formal definition [2] says: > > "[Definition: An XML namespace is identified by an IRI reference > [RFC3987]; element and attribute names may be placed in an XML namespace > using the mechanisms described in this specification. ]" > ... But <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/> is the namespaces specification for XML 1.1, right? <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names> (from the same date) still refers to RFC 3986 (URI). BR, Julian
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