- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:28:52 -0500 (EST)
- To: fielding@ebuilt.com (Roy T. Fielding)
- Cc: LMM@acm.org (Larry Masinter), duerst@w3.org ('Martin Duerst'), stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de ('Stefan Eissing'), w3c-dist-auth@w3.org ('WebDAV'), uri@w3.org
Roy, > > 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. Interesting. Just to clarify, what are you suggesting be changed? That "foo:" be a valid absolute URI reference, or a valid relative one? MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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