- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:05:53 -0700
- To: "John Aldridge" <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>, <michaelm@netsol.com>
- Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, <XML-uri@w3.org>
> Do you go further and say that XSLT (which matches elements
> and attributes
> based on their namespaces being the same) must therefore use this
> definition of equivalence? I.e. two QNames match if their
> namespace URIs
> are byte-for-byte identical and their local parts are the same?
>
> Again, I agree, but Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (at least) has
> expressed the
> view that this is not what the relevant RFCs/RECs say (or
> what they should
> say).
That is over-simplifying what I stated - in [1], I said that
1) The generator of a name has the responsiblity to
know the semantics of the URI space that she is using
2) It is sufficient if a basic consumer only uses
octet-by-octet comparison taking into account relative
URIs. However, it is also fully acceptable for the
consumer to know about special normalization rules of a
URI space and apply those if so desired.
which I further elaborated on in [2] mentioning the responsibilities of
the party generating the document and the party consuming the document.
Henrik
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0721.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0739.html
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