RE: Are empty strings legal xs:anyURI from Martin Gudgin on 2003-03-27 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from March 2003)

From: Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:28:08 -0800
To: "Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <7C083876C492EB4BAAF6B3AE0732970E0AEF0AF7@red-msg-08.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Thanks Scott, that's the conclusion I have come to since sending the
e-mail.

Cheers

Gudge

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu] 
> Sent: 27 March 2003 15:18
> To: Martin Gudgin; xml-dist-app@w3.org
> 
> > I took an action on the call today to figure out whether 
> empty strings 
> > are legal in attributes of type xs:anyURI.
> 
> Since an empty URI is supposed to refer to "the current 
> document", I have to assume the URI production rules permit 
> it. That's used frequently in XML Signature processing, and 
> it certainly validates with all the parsers I've tried.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 
>

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