- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:47:21 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: www-international@w3.org, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org, Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>, Michel Suignard <michelsu@microsoft.com>
Chris Lilley wrote: > Thus, to get to this desirable goal, then for URIs %ab and %AB and %Ab > and %aB have to compare the same. This isn't "merely aesthetic' is is > what IRI needs to build on. I agree with that, and all the above. > MD> Currently, Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Candidate Rec) specifies that for > MD> purposes of namespace equivalence, '%7e', '%7E', and '~' are different > MD> (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/#IRIComparison). > > Yes. This should change. This is where this scares me. I don't think I remember reading the source of a single XML processing app that compared namespaces using URI rules. All use string equality for their tests. Changing that would mean changing a *lot* of apps. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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