At 12:06 PM -0500 1/31/04, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > followed by a URI-encoding of the XML for "What is cost of part number 4?" > > http://example.com/customer?<query >xmlns:="./"><number>4</number><cost>?</cost></query> I don't see why in this use case the query namespace must be related to the actual host name. Why not use http://example.com/customer?<query xmlns:="http://www.example.com/query-namespace"><number>4</number><cost>?</cost></query> regardless of the host name? The existing scheme seems quite fragile. Does the query fail if I access the database via literal IP address instead of host name? Or if I use an alias? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitAReceived on Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:46:11 GMT
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