- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:53:19 +0000
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have some trouble understanding the BNF and the examples. 1) The term *IRI* in the BNF resolves to a (non-normative!) reference to the IRI spec, in which the relevant production is: IRI = scheme ":" ihier-part [ "?" iquery ] [ "#" ifragment ] This is clearly incompatible with virtually all the examples you give. I _guess_ what you want is the *irelative-ref* production, but I'm not sure. . . I'll assume that from now on. 2) I can't make sense of the example google:xforms or 'xml forms' What is the CURIE here? "xforms or 'xml forms'" is _not_ an *IRI*, nor is it an *irelative-ref*, as I read the IRI ABNF. . . And even if you convince me that it _is_ a CURIE, this suggests that users of CURIEs in non-XML languages will have a _very_ difficult time determining their boundaries. . . 3) I don't understand how the second set of examples are valid per your BNF either. The BNF only allows ':' when it's preceded by a *prefix*, and a *prefix* is an *NCName*, and an *NCName* can't be empty. . . (BTW, your reference to Namespaces in XML is also normative, and should be presented as such, and should I think also be updated at least to the 2nd edition [1], and preferably to the 2nd edition of v1.1 [2]) I also suggest that using copyright material (e.g. [3]) for your examples is needlessly risky -- yes, maybe the quote is short enough to qualify as 'fair use', but why bother with the hassle -- I strongly suggest you make up your examples. . . ht [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816 [3] http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/10/19/ballmer-microsoft-aol-cx_cn_1019autofacescan01.html - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtiFfkjnJixAXWBoRAmmsAJ90reh4tGklsvQ253Kl58TFUz23vACfeQm0 8vyTyx3GvGbddCmR4/G+iio= =yJxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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