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Subject: Re[8]: [cgmo-webcgm] implications of URI vs. IRI
Hi Lofton, That helps, thanks! We don't have the space-separated lists of URIs, so the wrinkle doesn't affect us (right?). -- Benoit mailto:benoit@itedo.com Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 10:15:33 AM, Lofton wrote: LH> Further information on the issue, here is a dialog with Chris, where I LH> asked for clarification on the intent of the text in SVG. "Both forms LH> allowed" is correct (with one small wrinkle about BLANK.) >>At 12:04 PM 10/12/2005 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: >>On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 2:09:42 AM, Lofton wrote: >> >>LH> Hi Chris, >> >>LH> I'm interested in the intent behind this statement from SVG11, section >>LH> 5.3.2, "URI reference attributes", and perhaps your memory of those ol' >>LH> days has the answer: >> >>It was a half way house to IRIs. Well, more than half way, in fact. In >>SVG 1.2 that language is replaced by a reference to IRI. >> >> >>"The value of the href attribute must be a URI reference as defined in >> >>[RFC2396], or must result in a URI reference after the escaping procedure >> >>described below is applied. The procedure is applied when passing the URI >> >>reference to a URI resolver." >> >>LH> I read that as specifying either of these as acceptable in SVG content: >> >>LH> <image href="raster%20reference%20image.png" .../> >>LH> <image href="raster reference image.png" .../> >> >>Unfortunately the space character is special (some attributes take >>space-separated lists of URIs or IRIs) and always needs to be escaped, >>per IRI. Pretty much any other character not allowed in URIs would have >>fitted into that example. >> >>LH> I.e., either the post-uri-encoded form (which is a rfc2396-compliant URI >>LH> reference), or the pre-uri-encoded form, which is not yet a >>LH> rfc2396-compliant URI reference, may appear in SVG content. Correct? >> >>Yes. >> >>LH> -Lofton. >> >>LH> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#xlinkRefAttrs >>LH> [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
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