• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* references
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:16:09 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <004001c26701$7e3b5100$fe193044@tbp1>

> From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:13 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become
> *IRI* references
>
>
> [Julian Reschke]
>
> > >  But the Namespaces Rec v1.0 already allows all those non-acsii
> characters
> > > and that (potential) problem already exists.
> >
> > IMHO, it doesn't. Definition is:
> >
> > "[Definition:] The attribute's value, a URI reference, is the namespace
> name
> > identifying the namespace."
> >
> > And, according to RFC2396, URI references do *not* contain non-ASCII
> > characters.
> >
>
> Yes, and then there is this -
>
> " QName ::= (Prefix ':')? LocalPart [7]
> Prefix ::= NCName [8]
> LocalPart ::= NCName "

How does this affect the value space for the values of namespace
declarations?

> I agree that as a minimum, this discrepancy should be cleared up, and at
> best, the Rec should be aligned with the RFC for URIs.

I disagree that it needs to be aligned. IMHO, it is.

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