OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   Re: [xml-dev] namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI*refere

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]

[Julian Reschke]

> >  But the Namespaces Rec v1.0 already allows all those non-acsii
characters
> > and that (potential) problem already exists.
>
> IMHO, it doesn't. Definition is:
>
> "[Definition:] The attribute's value, a URI reference, is the namespace
name
> identifying the namespace."
>
> And, according to RFC2396, URI references do *not* contain non-ASCII
> characters.
>

Yes, and then there is this -

" QName ::= (Prefix ':')? LocalPart [7]
Prefix ::= NCName [8]
LocalPart ::= NCName "

I agree that as a minimum, this discrepancy should be cleared up, and at
best, the Rec should be aligned with the RFC for URIs.

Cheers,

Tom P.






 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS