Subject: Unification and syntax From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:59:00 -0500 |
One argument against unification that I have heard is that XSL uses many URI-incompatible characters. I don't follow that argument. Why must we encode URIs in our documents in the exact syntax that will be sent across the wire? There is a well-defined encoding algorithm: computers can handle it instead of computers. It seems to me that I should be able to make URIs that include any character that can be represented in the encoding. In traversing the URI, the *software* can do the encoding before fetching the resource. Maybe I'm missing something. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco By lumping computers and televisions together, as if they exerted a single malign influence, pessimists have tried to argue that the electronic revolution spells the end of the sort of literate culture that began with Gutenberg?s press. On several counts, that now seems the reverse of the truth. http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/19-12-98/index_xm0015.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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