Re: ID: draft-ietf-webdav-bind-05

At 9:41 PM +0200 6/23/04, Julian Reschke wrote:
>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.

I think you're mistaking an ABNF change between 2396 and 2396bis for
an architectural point.  If you go back to 1738, the predecessor to 2396,
the schemepart's inclusion of *xchar clearly allows zero according
to the rules of the BNF syntax it references from 822 (see 2.4 in
RFC 822).
			regards,
				Ted Hardie

Received on Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:04:58 UTC