Re: Handling unrecognized xpointer schemes

At 2:24 PM +0200 6/4/04, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   So any error from an XPointer level is opaque, you can't make assumption
>at the specification level wether this is due to syntactic problems, scheme
>support or error locating any subresource (that's far from perfect, I agree).
>   What the note you copied intend is to insist on that point, i.e. all errors
>coming back from an XPointer evaluation are handled as resource error, because
>there is no way to tell what happened in general. Maybe that could be reworded
>to be made clearer,


I'm fine with that resolution, provided it is reworded. I suggest 
just saying "error" rather than specifying "syntax error." I don't 
think the XPointer Framework spec uses the phrase "syntax error".
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