- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:59:05 +0200
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
* Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say: >| http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 5.4 notes >| "The value of the href attribute must be an IRI reference as defined in >| [IETF RFC 3987] or must result in an IRI reference after the escaping >| procedure described below is applied." Except for the space character, >| applying the algorithm would just render illegal IRIs XLink-compliant; >| I do not really see how this would make sense, please replace this >| part of the draft with something more reasonable. > >I'm sorry, could you please explain your comment in more detail, I don't >understand your comment. The requirement is that the value must be a IRI reference after applying the IRI reference -> URI reference conversion algorithm. Since all URI references are said to be IRI references, applying the algorithm makes a difference iff a string that is not an IRI reference is converted to a URI reference. What's the point? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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