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> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 2:43 PM > To: Julian Reschke; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become > *IRI* references > > > At 2:13 PM +0200 9/28/02, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > >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. > > It's not at all clear that "namespace names must be valid URI > references according to RFC2396", even in Namepaces 1.0. Using a > non-URI as a namespace name does not appear to violate either the BNF > grammar or the Namespace constraints listed in that spec. I agree that this has been discussed controversially. Fact is, the specification says... "[Definition:] The attribute's value, a URI reference, is the namespace name identifying the namespace." It is also fact that there is software that *does* check this constraint (for instance James Clark's Jing). So -- if any -- this shows that namespaces 1.1 should clarify *that* (right now, it seems to have the same problem as 1.0). -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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