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RE: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* refer

• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* references
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:55:03 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <002501c266fe$6f14b6b0$fe193044@tbp1>

> From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 4:51 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become
> *IRI* references
>
>
> [Julian Reschke]
> >
> > the TAG announcements about namespace documents and the
> XLink/HLink issue
> > have created a lot of traffic and discussion. However, this
> seems to have
> > caused that *another* important announcement -- Namespaces in XML 1.1
> being
> > in last call -- has gone nearly unnoticed.
> >
> > I am *very* uncomfortable with the IMHO sudden change to allow *IRI*
> > references as namespace names. As far as I understand, this was not
> covered
> > in the requirements [2].
> >
> > Namespace names allowing characters outside the ASCII character
> set means
> > that this change will break any code that currently relies on the fact
> that
> > namespace names must be valid URI references according to RFC2396. Of
> course
> > code can be changed, but I doubt that the cost of this has been
> considered
> > properly.
> >
>  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.


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