[Fwd: W3C XML Plenary Decision on relative URI References In namespace declarations]

I gather this is relevant to an issue currently
under discussion...

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

attached mail follows:

On behalf of the XML Plenary chairs
(one of whom recently had his laptop stolen)...

We are decided:

"3. Conclusions

By a large margin, the XML Plenary endorses the proposal
given below.
[...]

4.2 Proposal 

Proposed: to deprecate the use of relative URI references
in namespace declarations; that is: to say that while they
conform to the Namespace Recommendation of January
1999, later specifications such as DOM, XPath, etc. will
define no interpretation for them. "

        -- Results of W3C XML Plenary
	Ballot on relative URI References
	In namespace declarations
	3-17 July 2000
	Dave Hollander
	C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
	6 September 2000
	http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/