Re: URIs quack like a duck

> Ahhh! You want to make it ILLEGAL to dereference a namespace to anything.

If you dereference the namespace name then without some extra knowledge
about some special circumstance that you are in, you have no reason to
suspect that the data returned has anything to do with the namespace.

<x xmlns="http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk"/>

is a document containing an element in a namespace named after my home
page. The fact that I used that URI to name the namespace in this
document in no way affects the resource identified by the URI.

John's proposal was that if you wanted a URI to refer to the namespace
you could use data:, prepended to the namespace name, which would be
data:,http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk
here.

David

Received on Thursday, 1 June 2000 05:45:03 UTC