Re: xml:base (was Re: IRI meets RDF meets HTTP redirect)

I believe that your interpretation is pretty much the opinion that many 
of us have held of what the PER means. I (think) it's clear that CharMod 
thinks that's what it means (although xml:base is never directly 
referenced). See:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-resid/#C059

Addison

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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.


Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1:26:36 PM, Jeremy wrote:
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> JC> Oh good. So a base-uri function, which doesn't do any fetching, also 
> JC> doesn't do any %-escaping?
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> I would need to spec-spelunk to be sure but that would be my interpretation of the intent of the PER, yes.
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> Specifically, two IRIs are the same if (following use of xml:base to do relative-to-absolute) they are the same Unicode strings.
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> There is no need to hexify both of them, though IIRC RFC3987 does talk about doing that in theory.
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> JC> Jeremy
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> JC> Chris Lilley wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 9:03:19 PM, Sandro wrote:
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>>>>> The value of an xml:base attribute is not so limited: it can contain
>>>>> (almost) arbitrary Unicode, which is %-escaped before being used
>>>>> to alter the base URI property of the element on which it appears
>>>>> and the element's children.
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>>> SH> Percent-escaping has got to be among the 10 most confusing and confused
>>> SH> subjects in the history of computing.   :-)
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>>> This is why its better if computers do it, and humans see the real characters.
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>>> SH> My sense is that the 2001 XML Base Recommendation [1] is very confused
>>> SH> about how to handle percent-escaping.  Of course, it long predated IRIs,
>>> SH> so this isn't so surprising.
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>>> I agree that the newer PER is clearer.
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>>> SH> There is a Proposed Edited Recommendation [2] which, to my mind, is much
>>> SH> clearer about this.  It says, essentially, don't do percent-escaping.
>>> SH> XML is safe for Unicode, so just use Unicode.
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>>> Which is pretty much what
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>>>   The set of characters allowed in xml:base attributes is the same as
>>>   for XML, namely [Unicode]. However, some Unicode characters are
>>>   disallowed from URI references, and thus processors must encode and
>>>   escape these characters to obtain a valid URI reference from the
>>>   attribute value.
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>>> says. The improvement in the PER is to clarify that the 'processor' is
>>> the software which reads the XML attribute value and constructs a URI
>>> to fetch; not, as it could be read, the software which creates the XML
>>> document.
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