[whatwg] Use IRI instead of URI

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Mon Feb 7 08:47:46 PST 2005


On Feb 7, 2005, at 18:19, Matthew Raymond wrote:

> Should that be |type="iri"|??? Perhaps we should have both, with "uri" 
> being an alias.

Aliases are annoying from the implementation point of view. I once 
tried supporting attributes in no namespace and attributes in the 
namespace of the element at the same time. Not fun.

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Henri Sivonen
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