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Subject: Re: [security-services] XPath Attribute Profile: XPath URI as a URN
Just to be pedantic at you guys, URIs are a superset that includes URLs and URNs. These days we've all been trained to say "URI" when we likely mean "http URL" (much like "spokesman/spokesperson", I guess :-). Regarding canonicalization of URIs, there's a huge section in the XPointer framework spec going over the implications of normalizing and encoding XPaths/XPointers in the context of a URI/IRI: http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/#escaping This spec also goes into how you figure out namespace context: http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/#nsContext Eve Rich Salz wrote: >>(That problem is that XPath is a URI, which means it could be a URN but >>no one has registered a urn for it) > > > I'm not so sure. For example, // has special meaning in XPath, and I > believe URI/IRI canonicalization doesn't know that: > /foo/bar[position()=count(//foo/bar/baz)] > > And what about namespace prefixes? XPath depends on surrounding > context; URI's don't. > > /r$ > -- Eve Maler eve.maler @ sun.com Sun Microsystems - Business Alliances x40976 / +1 425 947 4522
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