- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:41:48 +0200
- To: Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
- Cc: Joe Hildebrand <joe@cursive.net>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Ted Hardie wrote: > That's not my reading of http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114; > you seem to believe that a URI reference used as namespace cannot be the > bare scheme. The "qualified names" discussion seems to contradict this > view, at least in my reading. "DAV:" isn't a RFC2396-compliant URI reference either, because it starts with a scheme name. This issue has been discussed extensively in autumn 2002, the result being that RFC2396bis will change the grammar to allow empty scheme names, thus (finally) making "DAV:" a valid URI and thus a legal namespace name. See: <http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ietf-uri/rev-2002/issues.html#014-empty-opaque_part> Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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