Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Michael Mealling wrote:
> In other words, an injective quality is really irrelevant....

The injective function is only relevant if:

  * one wishes to compare namespaces *as* resources
  * one does not which to resove the resource from the URI

If you wish to compare resources based upon URIs, an
injective (1-1, unique, etc.) function is needed from 
the URI space into the resource space. 

In the case that we stick with the current specification's
definition of the namespace *as* the URI string, and not 
as a resource it refers to; then the function is not 
required, and hence, the injective debate is moot.

Clark