- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:45:42 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 09:29 AM 6/7/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > >> the "absolutize" folks are willing to put up with "forbid". > >If so, the challenge reduces to one of dealing with the legacy documents >already using relative syntax, which would become incorrect if forbid >isaccepted. We had a few folks strongly asserting that they absolutely >needed this, or at least needed some reasonable deprecation/migration path. >I've lost track of whether that's still the case. Because there is no mechanism at present for alerting processors to different versions of the namespaces spec, I'd suggest that the W3C start with deprecation, and only move on to full 'forbidden' status with another revision of XML. Basically, this will put out a warning (one I gave repeatedly at JavaOne yesterday) that relative URI references are dangerous practice and suggests that they will be excised from the spec, while letting current processors carry on business as usual. Once there's a mechanism to indicate "hey, this document is a flavor that forbids relative URI references", then the W3C can move forward on that. 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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