RE: Internationalization issue.

> I believe that this should be added to the issues list.  The issue
> is that unnormalized payloads cannot predictably be routed based
> upon their content.

I think the implied solution is to have normalized payloads, and
(my assumption is) that normalization be according to 
the normalization-algorithms (Unicode TR#15) endorsed by W3C's
I18N WG.

David, I wasn't at the Boston f2f, so please correct me if my
assumption is wrong.

Regards, 
Yin Leng 

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Yin-Leng Husband 
Enterprise Integration Practice    
Compaq Global Services	
Compaq Computer Corporation	

  
  



-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Barclay [mailto:Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com]
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 1:22 
To: David Clay
Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Subject: Re: Internationalization issue.


David Clay wrote:
> 
...
> I believe that this should be added to the issues list.  The issue
> is that unnormalized payloads cannot predictably be routed based
> upon their content.

(You're talking about things like "test" vs. "test" or CDATA
sections in XML, or "test" vs. "t%65st" in URIs, right?)

I don't think that any filtering can _ever_ be reliable without 
interpreting the raw data the way it is meant to be interpreted. 

(It's like trying to check for ".." segments in URLs that will be passed 
to a shell without checking for backslashes that the shell will interpret.
You might catch the URL "http://host/subsection/../.." but you'll miss
"http://host/subsection/\.\./\.\.".)

Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
Digital Focus
Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com

Received on Tuesday, 8 May 2001 22:43:07 UTC