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[Joe English] > > Thomas B. Passin wrote: > > [Michael Kay] > > > Since the bottom line in the Namespaces spec is that parsers are > > > supposed to accept any character string in the role of a namespace name, > > > the obvious solution is to remove all the fine words about IRIs which > > > don't actually affect conformance anyway. > > > > > If an IRI is supposed to be able to use any local encoding, how is the > > network supposed to know which encoding is being used for any particular > > IRI? > > Mu. We're talking about "Namespaces in XML"; namespace names > aren't URIs (or IRIs), they're opaque character strings which > are supposed to conform to the syntax of URIs (or IRIs). > The network is irrelevant. > > 'Course I know that. But the conversation got me into a bit of OT wondering, that's all. Cheers, Tom P
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