- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:25:53 +0100 (BST)
- To: frystyk@microsoft.com
- CC: XML-uri@w3.org
You missed the point completely. This has nothing to do with advice - it is a strict requirement on the generator of a document using XML namespaces. Trying to turn it into a requirement on the consumer of a document that uses XML namespaces makes no sense. Henrik But the point is that there is more than one person and more than one document involved. If I am creating a document with a namespace http://www.example.com/a and someone else creates a document with a namespace http://WWW.EXAMPLE.COM/a then which of us is in error? Without some method of determining this I don't see any point on stating that it is a "strict requirment" that one of us is in error. The namespace spec provides no notion of defining a namespace separate from using it in an xmlns declaration, so there is no way of deciding. For some namespaces there may be a specification somewhere that gives a cannonical form (eg http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform) but that is not a necessary or enforceable feature of any particular namespace. David
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