- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:26:40 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>, "'Stefan Eissing'" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, uri@w3.org
> but have left out the following possibilities: > > * Change the XML namespace spec to allow "scheme-name:" as > a namespace name, even though it isn't a legal URI > (This isn't such a big deal, since XML namespace names allow > IRIs with non-ASCII characters anyway, not really URIs) In case anyone is wondering, "scheme:" is not allowed in the URI syntax because Web browsers and client libraries do interpret it as a form of relative URI due to a loophole in CERN's original partial URI algorithm. People never used it, but the loophole makes it impossible for such an identifier to be interoperable. OTOH, I have found at least one other example -- the "about:" URL in Netscape Navigator -- so I guess this could be changed in a future revision of 2396. ....Roy
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