XML Schema URIs are IRIs.
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Ramkumar Menon
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> I have a WSDL/XSD file whose targetNamespace is
> http://großerJob.german.com. The namespace URI contains characters
> from german language, as you can see.
> If use a designer tool to view and validate this WSDL/XML, what should
> be the behaviour?
> a) Give an error stating that the targetNamespace is not in an anyURI format?
> b) Proceed to percent encode it and then validate the URI.[as per UTF-8 maybe]
>
> The confusion here is that the WSDL/Schema viewing/interpreting in the
> tool by a human would be difficult if I use all percent encodings in
> the URIs. Shouldn't the tools detect the character set and
> appropriately encode it. For instance, if I take a print out of the
> document, I would prefer to view the native language, as opposed to
> the encoded URIs.
> Humans should be able to read the URI in the viewer in the native
> language as-is, whereas any tools that intend to process it should
> treat it as a set of octets, and handle them accordingly.
>
> So the Q is : Should a designer tool emit errors when it validates
> the document with the above behaviour?
> Please advise.
>
> Ram
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> -Ramkumar Menon
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