- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:27:06 +0200
- To: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@topologi.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of > Rick Jelliffe > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:55 PM > To: www-tag@w3.org > Subject: Re: Grinding to a halt on Issue 27. > > ... > > In [0a], Julian's posting [0b] is summarized as 'feedback that > this "upgrade" is > not without some cost'. However, that is not what Julian said > AFAICS. His comment > is not anti-non-ASCII per se but concerned with namespace comparisons. > I think this is gist of Rod Fieldings comments: he thinks that > going all ASCII > will solve things. > ... Rick, that's correct. My concerns are/were: - there is no clear mandate to change this in the XMLNS (!) 1.1 requirements - it may break code, in particular if IRI allows some ASCII characters which are commonly used as delimiters *between* namespace names (I assume that this is going to be fixed) - the benefit is unclear: if somebody really want's to *refer* to his namespace using localized characters, he *can* do that. Just use the IRI, and specify that the actual namespace name is the mapped URI (just like you'll need to do the same transformation when for instance mapping a IRI to an HTTP URL). Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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