- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 15:09:06 -0600
- To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
I think you'll be glad if you go with this. I'm not wild about "3. Restrict...", but it's acceptable, especially given how valuable I consider 1 and 2. > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:07:31 +0100 > From: Gregor Karlinger <Gregor.Karlinger@iaik.at> > > "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." wrote: > > > [...] I understand Eastlake (or others) might try to post a > > plug/play proposal on URI/IDREF [...] > > I have followed up the latest discussion about the URI/IDREF problem and > would like to present a proposal which is slightly different from what I > have posted in [1] and was referred to by Donald in [2]: > > 1. Remove the 'IDREF' attribute from the Reference element. > > 2. Allow the 'URI' attribute of the Reference element to be of type 'uri' > as defined in XML Schema Part 2 [3]. This means the 'URI' attribute is > a 'URI-Reference' and can have a 'fragment' part. > > 3. Restrict the semantics of the 'fragment' part of the 'URI-Reference' > to a single case: Only allow the XPointer 'bare name' shortcut as > defined in [4]. In other words: The content of the former 'IDREF' attribute > is presented as the fragment part of the 'URI' attribute. > > 4. All other means of selecting parts of an XML document can be expressed by > XPath/XPointer transforms. [...] -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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