- From: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:48:12 +0100
- To: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@microsoft.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 09:01 20/07/00 -0700, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote: >Very similarly, an application that only does case-sensitive comparison of >the full http URI will not know that >"http://www.informatix.co.uk/headers/" and >"http://WWW.INFORMATIX.CO.UK/headers/" are equal, but the result is >exactly the same as if it didn't know the extension in the first place. >The important thing to note is that the stupid app *does* interoperate as >it knows that it received an XML namespace and it knows that it doesn't >know about it. > >This of course applies directly to the XML NS debate. You are saying, then, that the XPath REC should permit, _but not require_, XPath implementations (including XSLT) to normalise NSURIs in a scheme dependent manner when comparing names? This can clearly result in a given XML source/XSLT stylesheet combination producing different results depending on the normalisations performed by the particular XPath implementation. I beg to differ. I believe this to be behaviour which should be standardised, and not left implementation defined. -- Cheers, John
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