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> The XQuery format also seem to suffer from the disease that everything > must be an http URI even when, as in this case, the URI is not actually > resolvable. (http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xqt-errors is a real page but the > fragment ID doesn't point to anything.) If I remember correctly, at some point the idea was to have it point to a description of the error... Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: public-qt-comments-request@w... [mailto:public-qt-comments- > request@w...] On Behalf Of Elliotte Harold > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:51 AM > To: Michael Kay > Cc: 'Rich Salz'; xml-dev@l...; public-qt-comments@w... > Subject: [XQuery] Re: draft-rsalz-qname-urn > > > Michael Kay wrote: > > > The XQuery specification, incidentally, defines a mapping of error > QNames to > > error URIs. It's different from this one, of course. > > The error URIs in the XQuery spec look like this: > > http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xqt-errors#XPST0017 > > Something similar has been tried before in XML digital signatures and > RDF. For reasons elucidated in the draft proposal, this format is not > suitable for all QNames and does not work as a generic mechanism for > encoding Qnames as URIs. > > The XQuery format also seem to suffer from the disease that everything > must be an http URI even when, as in this case, the URI is not actually > resolvable. (http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xqt-errors is a real page but the > fragment ID doesn't point to anything.) > > I agree with most of your concerns about the details of the proposed > qname URN scheme (IRIs vs. URIs, percent encoding, etc.) but at a > fundamental level I think the proposed scheme is better than what XQuery > is proposing. I would suggest that XQuery adopt the new qname URN scheme > rather than using http URIs to identify error codes. In fact, I'll cc > this to the XQuery working group to register it as a formal comment. > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... > XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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