- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:40 +0100
- To: <Toman_Vojtech@emc.com>
- Cc: <xproc-dev@w3.org>, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
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[anon] writes:
>> So the input
>> <c:file name="ab er.xml"/>
>> becomes
>> <c:file name="file:/J:/test/ab%20er.xml"/>
>
> Now I wonder if this is actually correct. After reading the relevant
> parts of the XML Base and XML Schema (anyURI) specifications, my current
> understanding is that that on the XML *source* level, the values are not
> escaped. So in your XML source, you can (must?) use "raw" values such as
> "ab er.xml" in your @xml:base attributes (or in elements/attributes that
> are of type xs:anyURI).
Yes.
> These values get escaped internally when the processor does some URI
> manipulation with them.
No. The values should be escaped at the last possible moment before
dereferencing. In particular, absolutisation should _not_ do escaping.
> So the p:make-absolute-uris step should therefore do the escaping itself
> ("ab er.xml" --> "ab%20er.xml") before resolving the URI against the
> base URI. Then it should *unescape* the result, so you don't get:
>
> <c:file name="file:/J:/test/ab%20er.xml"/>
>
> but:
>
> <c:file name="file:/J:/test/ab er.xml"/>
That's the right result, but why escape then unescape?
> I am not really sure about this, perhaps somebody else can shed more
> light into this?
I've copied Richard Tobin explicitly, as he is the expert on this
matter.
ht
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