- From: Christopher Chamber <gullit@usa.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:22:41 +0000
- To: xml-names-editor@w3.org
Section 8 states: To conform to this specification, a processor must report violations of namespace well-formedness, with the exception that it it not required to check that namespace names are legal IRIs. I would prefer that processors be required to check at least syntactical correctness of namespace IRIs. Failing to do so pretty much eliminates the point of requiring them to be IRIs. One of the really good ideas of XML has been that well-formedness constraints must be checked and violations must be reported. I see little reason to change that here. If processors are not required to check this, one of two things will happen: 1. No processors will check it, and the constraint that namespace names be IRIs will be effectively negated. 2. Some processors will check this and some won't. This will cause interoperability problems. Both results are bad. It's not that hard to check that a string is a legal absolute IRI reference. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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