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Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?

• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:39:57 -0500
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Eric van der Vlist scripsit:

> Yes, I have been to fast to answer... The only think we could object is
> that it would have been better named "URIreference" !

Actually, the anyURI type also allows non-ASCII characters, so it is
really the IRI type, but IRIs were not yet defined or even named at
that point.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."

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  • Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
    • From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
  • Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
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  • Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
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  • Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
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  • Re: Why is xml:base a URI *reference*?
    • From: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
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