- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:34:23 +0100
- 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: >| 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. So, if it's not impractical, why is it not required? -- 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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