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> From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@comcast.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:13 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become
> *IRI* references
>
>
> [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 "
How does this affect the value space for the values of namespace
declarations?
> 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.
I disagree that it needs to be aligned. IMHO, it is.
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