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At 10:00 AM +0200 6/17/02, Julian Reschke wrote: >Well, in this case we should care. I know of at least one XML application >that *does* validate namespace names (Jim Clark's JING). > And I can add another. JDOM at least tries to do this, though currently that code is broken. And I'm working on a third myself, which is why I bumped across this. I agree that URI conformance should be a requirement. I think it could probably be made so in Namespaces 1.1 without any great effort. The simplest way would be to add a namespace constraint specifying that the value of a namespace declaration attribute must be a legal RFC 2396 URI reference. The question for me is whether this is a small enough and obvious enough change that it could plausibly be made an erratum to 1.0. A little to my surprise, Dare pointed out one major public case (WebDAV) where the actual namespace name was in fact not a URI reference. Julian Reschke pointed out that there was a different loophole WebDAV could use, based on a future version of RFC 2396. Of course, the namespaces spec references 2396 only, not 2396 and its successors. :-( Not that the namespaces errata are models of backwards compatibility and small changes, but I do prefer to be very conservative in what's classified as an erratum. I feel this change is just a little too big to be justified as an erratum. I think it needs to wait for Namespaces 1.1. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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