- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:34:28 -0400
- To: michaelm@netsol.com, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Michael Mealling wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I still don't understand the difference between these two proposals.
> I guess it comes down to my own narrow view of the world.
The difference is precisely in the use of relative URI references like "foo/bar".
In my ("data scheme", "new synthesis") proposal, every reference to
the namespace name "foo/bar" is a reference to the same namespace,
independent of context, because the name is mapped to the URI
"data:,foo/bar". Accessing "foo/bar", on the other hand, produces
an entity body that is emphatically dependent on context.
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