Internationalizing the URI (O'Reilly)
Kendall Grant Clark
covers
the current state of XML URI specifications on O'Reilly.
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As Paul Grosso said at the end of April, the progress of the XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1 recommendations may be slowed, if not stopped altogether, because of issues raised by the future of URIs. That is to say, because the future, in the form of IRIs, isn't here yet. The W3C's Technical Architecture Group has been unable to reach consensus on its Issue 27, which asks whether, when, and how to integrate IRIs into the core recommendations of the Web. One of the problems is that IRIs aren't finished yet, and it's notoriously tricky to rely on a formal concept or standard which, in some strict sense, doesn't yet exist. It's perfectly reasonable for the TAG and for other W3C Working Groups to point at the eventual IRI RFC and say, "do it like that". But until that RFC is finished, pointing blindly may cause more trouble than simply waiting till it is."
Posted May 15, 2003 20:09 UTC (Thu)
by Baylink (guest, #755)
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"IRI"? Internationalizing the URI (O'Reilly)
Then I guess the "Universal Resource Identifier" isn't, too much; is it?