Re: Moving on (was Re: URIs quack like a duck)

That is why relative URIs are excluded.
If no relative URIs are used, then red and green algorithms match.
I can see no alternative as there seems to be a resistance on this list to
absolutizing relative URIs.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
To: xml-uri@w3.org <xml-uri@w3.org>
Date: Friday, June 02, 2000 6:24 AM
Subject: RE: Moving on (was Re: URIs quack like a duck)


>Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>>
>> XPath does not need to be re-issued as it will interwork, as relative
>> URIs are excluded.  Software which absolutizes the URI-reference
>> and uses the URI will be legal. So will software which compares as
>> strings.  Yes, it is is a compromise.
>>
>
>This would leave us in the peculiar situation that different pieces of
>software would have different ideas of well formedness. Suppose an XML
>document was being operated on in a pipeline and the first processor parses
>the document as well formed (green XML). A subsequent process may
>justifiably fail to parse the document (red XML).
>
>Jonathan Borden
>
>
>

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