- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:50:23 -0400
- To: <XML-uri@w3.org>, "David Turner" <dturner@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <connolly@w3.org>
Isn't this proposal simply a proposal for absolutization?
Dan Connolly wrote:
> Interesting! Something different, at least...
>
> I've read it twice now, and I don't find anything to object
> to. But I'm not sure I understand the impact.
>
> In particular, I'm not sure if/how it impacts the
> namespace-uri() function of XPath.
>
...
>
> Also... is there any impact on the DOM2 spec?
>
> David Turner wrote:
> [...]
> > The proposal meets the following requirements:
> >
> > * Namespace names are URIs
> >
> > * No two namespace names will appear to be equal
> > when more information would reveal them as unequal
> >
> > * Existing programs that employ string comparison will
> > continue to work in all cases where string comparison
> > produces results equal to comparison of absolutized URIs.
How about (requiring this condition)
* Existing documents which have a defined infoset will continue to have
a defined infoset.
... in order to meet this I think XBase will need to be scrapped.
Jonathan Borden
Received on Thursday, 8 June 2000 17:58:19 UTC