- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:55:17 +0900
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, <timbl@w3.org>, <steve@w3.org>, <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, <webreq@w3.org>, <chairs@w3.org>, <w3t-comm@w3.org>, <michelsu@microsoft.com>
At 23:28 08/03/17, Chris Lilley wrote: > >On Monday, March 17, 2008, 3:01:15 PM, John wrote: > >JC> Chris Lilley scripsit: > >>> How come XML Base needs [a reference to LEIRIs]? > >JC> Because that's the way the XML Core WG (or some predecessor) wrote the >JC> definition, back when nobody knew exactly what the rules for IRIs were >JC> going to be. The same with XLink and the others. > >Well, thats a far cry from what Martin said. Sorry, how's that a far cry from what I said? XML Base currently 1) uses a circumscriptive definition of (LE)IRIs similar (actually identical) to the one in the XML spec. 2) the XML Core WG apparently thinks that they do not want to exclude characters allowed in LEIRIs but not in IRIs with a technical correction. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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