[XOM-interest] Bug: XOM's rules for system ids are too stringent

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Feb 22 10:38:14 EST 2008


(Private response)

> At first glance, this appears to be another incompatible change 

Quite right, but you're cherry-picking.  Can you point to *any*
substantive errata that *don't* constitute an incompatible change?

The errata are at:

	http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-3e-errata
	http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-2e-errata
	http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata

> Thus the system identifier is a URI, not merely a string that is 
> converted to a URI. It is an error for a URI to contain an unescaped 
> linefeed, and XOM should throw an exception in that case.

You should document this as a major deviation from XML 1.0.  Or if you
are implementing XML 1.0 2e, you should say so.

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