Re: XLink 1.1: "URI reference" "checking"

/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| Dear XML Core Working Group,
|
|   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ section 5.4 notes
| "Because it is impractical for any application to check that a value is
| a URI reference, this specification follows the lead of [IETF RFC 3986]
| in this matter and imposes no such conformance testing requirement on
| XLink applications." Please include specific reference to the section of
| RFC 3986 that proposes this, and include a note why it is "impractical"
| to perform such a check.

This text used to refere to RFC 2396. On examination, we agree that it is
not correct as currently specified with a reference to RFC 3986. We have
no plans to impose a new requirement (checking the syntax of URIs) on
implementations, but we will changes this text to a simple note which
states that such checking is not required.

Please let us know if this resolution is satisfactory.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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