Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 11:22:14 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
> What are we going to do, outlaw strings that happen to look like > relative references? No, we just need to warn publishers (and extension authors) that the base URI of Simple Extension elements is not significant, and that they must not expect it to be preserved. We do the same regarding xml:lang already by saying that the element is not Language Sensitive, which means that the language context is not significant and that publishers must not expect it to be preserved. from Section 2: > The language context is only significant for elements and attributes > declared to be "Language-Sensitive" by this specification. I'd suggest adding something similar to Section 6.4.1, eg: "The base URI is not significant for Simple Extension elements." > Relative references are fragile, and people understand why they > break. Publishers should expect that relative refs used in atom:link will work, but publishers should expect that relative refs used in Simple Extensions will break. -- Dave
