Re: Collect Proposed wordings (Was: Can everyone be happy?)

At 09:17 AM 6/22/00 -0700, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
>In order to make progress, I think it would be useful to collect *exact
>proposals* for clarification/redesign/rewording of the current NS spec and
>put them on a Web page (which of course would require using a URI but that
>is another story). I for one am looking forward to see David's proposal on
>java classes. Maybe W3C would be willing to put up such a page?

Here's a small start.  In Namespaces in XML, replace:
[Definition:] URI references which identify namespaces are considered
identical when they are exactly the same character-for-character. Note that
URI references which are not identical in this sense may in fact be
functionally equivalent. Examples include URI references which differ only
in case, or which are in external entities which have different effective
base URIs. 

[Definition:] URI references which identify namespaces are considered
identical when they are exactly the same character-for-character. Note that
URI references which are not identical in this sense may in fact be
functionally equivalent and vice-versa. Examples include URI references
which differ only in case, or which are in external entities which have
different effective base URIs. Applications which process documents
containing namespaces identified by relative URI references may use their
own knowledge of context to absolutize those references, but such
processing must not be performed by parsers comparing namespace values to
determine attribute name uniqueness.

(I see the expansion as clarification, not change.  If opposed, I'd prefer
to see the Definition left as written rather than changed to a different
meaning.  The 'fixed base' proposal might be acceptable, in that it
genuinely pleases no one.)

For XPath, I'd encourage the use of literals for comparison rather than
absolutized values.  I don't think that contradicts existing practice,
though it would require a change to the spec.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

Received on Thursday, 22 June 2000 12:33:27 UTC