- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:13:51 -0400
- To: michaelm@netsol.com, xml-uri@w3.org
At 04:54 PM 6/2/00 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: >Rev XML to 2.0, make it axiomatic that anything that remotely looks like a >name or an address be an "absoluteURI" according to the 2396 ABNF. Don't make >it required that it be resolved in order to be parsed but make it so that >NOTHING (sans things like not being connected to the network, not having paid >for it, etc) can make it so that the URI can't be resolved if something above >it so desires. That'll require a revision to 2396, I think, as XML documents may come from situations where there is no base URI whatsoever. Maybe XML 2.0 could define a canonical base for such cases without revising 2396, but I'm not (personally) sure the axioms hold up or make sense in the context of document processing anyway. I'm also not sure XML 2.0 is worth considering until the world's had more time with 1.0, and I don't like the solution presented above, but I certainly hope that these issues will get a full hearing in any further development of XML. (If XML 2.0 is any more complicated than XML 1.0, and I expect it will be, don't be surprised if it gets the same treatment SGML got from XML, and subsets rule.) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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