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At 02:09 PM 04/27/2000 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
True, the HTML DTDs require that href attribute values be URIs, but URL encoding is not trivial. How is the XSLT processor supposed to know which reserved characters in a given URI are being used for their reserved purpose and which ones need to be escaped? Indeed. For that matter, how is an XSLT processor to know that an arbitrary string (attribute value, #PCDATA, whatever) is even a URI to begin with? The "this is a URI" meaning is not inherent in any XML vocabulary (except, of course, XHTML). Someday no doubt an XLink-aware XSLT processor will come along and "know" that any value of an xlink:href attribute must be a URI. Until then, I think it's a case of caveat author. ================================================================ John E. Simpson | "I want to get a tattoo of myself on http://www.flixml.org | my entire body, only 2 inches simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx | taller." (Steven Wright) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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