- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:25:52 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
Is there anything left that we haven't considered? I found the Microsoft proposal [1] a useful starting point, especially after clarifications [2-6]. [6] in particular makes clear that the Infoset is already tracking base URI information, so applications will have enough information to absolutize on their own, rather than requiring parsers to do so. Perhaps I'm just exhausted, but it seems like very few people want to force URI absolutization into XML parsers, and even fewer people want to do anything to prohibit applications from absolutizing URIs when the application finds that appropriate. This leaves parsers without any absolutizing responsibility (URI references can continue to be treated as literals) while permitting application layers above that to combine URI reference and base URI information to perform absolutization when appropriate. Is that a reasonable summary of where we are? [1] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0406.html [2] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0460.html [3] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0467.html [4] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0481.html [5] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0477.html [6] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0469.html 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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