- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:05:39 +0100
- To: "'Bjoern Hoehrmann'" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Bjoern, > The most important thing here that both Mark and Jon missed > is that the draft refers to IRI References as defined in RFC > 3987 for the xlink:href attribute, not to "URIs" or "relative > URIs" as defined (or not) in RFC 2396. (XLink 1.0, which > defines xlink:href, refers to RFC 2396 though, SVG Tiny 1.2 > is not compatible with XLink 1.0 or SVG 1.1 in this regard) Well, the thing that you missed Bjoern was that I specifically said I didn't know what the context of the discussion was! :) I was just replying to the specific issues raised about RFC 2396, and I think the conclusion was right, that "" is not invalid. However, although your comments about RFC 2396 being superseded are well made, I can't see where you think Jon is wrong, here: > >I interpret the specs (SVG 1.2/IRI/URI) to say as follows: > >1) xlink:href="" resolves to a reference to the document > itself (if no > >other xml:base attribute is explicitly given in the ancestors to the > >referencing element). You say that this view "is not really correct either": > Consider an example like > > <!-- document at http://example.org/svg/svg --> > <g xml:base="http://example.org/base"> > <image xlink:href="" ... /> > </g> You then go on to say that "the fragment above is basically equivalent to": > <!-- document at http://example.org/svg/svg --> > <g xml:base="http://example.org/base"> > <image xlink:href="http://example.org/base" ... /> > </g> That's exactly what Jon said. By the way, whilst everyone is going through this clarification process, you might also want to say how you view: xlink:href="#" This is usually also seen as a reference to the current document. Regards, Mark Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/
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