[css3-namespace] url() syntax

Hi,
This is a QA Review comment for "CSS Module: Namespaces"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-namespace-20060828/
2006-08-28
2nd WD

About http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-namespace-20060828/#syntax

The specification goes on defining that the namespace can be expressed as a string or a URI with the construct [STRING|URI] then later on the specification seems to discouraged the use of URI construct.

 [[[
 A URI string parsed from the url() syntax must be 
 treated as a literal string: no URI-specific 
 normalization is applied. For this reason the string 
 syntax is recommended, and the url()  syntax discouraged 
 deprecated?.
 ]]]

Why the original syntax is not:

  : NAMESPACE_SYM S* [namespace_prefix S*]? STRING S* ';' S*

Does the litteral string has to be a valid URI?




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Received on Tuesday, 5 September 2006 05:57:19 UTC