RE: [xri] Comparison Rules

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

Will Norris wrote on 2010-02-16:
> Is this for the 'type' attribute of the Property element (a URI value)
> or for the actual Property value (a string value) ?  Or both?  I would
> think it only actually makes sense for the 'type' attribute, and that
> the comparison rules for the Property value would be inferred based on
> the type value?

+1

> ourselves (at least not at this point in the spec).  It seems that
> this would fit better in section 3.2 "Schema Extension"?  And I'm not
> sure that a MUST is necessary... comparison rules are only necessary
> for those values that are expected to be compared.  How about relaxing
> this to a SHOULD?  Or state that comparison rules MUST be specified
> for those string or URI values that are expected to be compared?

+1 to the latter. Or just rephrased, something like "This specification does
not define generic comparison rules for string or URI values, and such rules
must be specified by extension profiles where necessary."

-- Scott