RE: '#' exit document space? (was: Documents, Cars, Hills, and Valleys)

> > which seems to be how things work out in practice (for RDF, at
least).
> 
> Well, when there is a one-one correspndence between two things, the ID
> of one can be used to identify the other.  So we could just say that
> the namespace is identified by giving the URI of the namespace
document.

This is exactly how I see it.  I would love to see a clarification note
added to the namespaces recommendation so that this stops being such a
point of confusion.