W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > xml-uri@w3.org > June 2000

Re: Moving on (was Re: URIs quack like a duck)

From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:41:26 -0400
Message-ID: <3937D5A6.74F2934D@reutershealth.com>
To: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
David Carlisle wrote:

> If it just does this, and doesn't actually forbid them then it has to
> answer the question `what is the namespace name of the element marked
> up as <x xmlns="x"/>' otherwise this whole discussion has failed.

In particular, the Infoset can't waffle: it *has* to return one or
the other or both, which is why I have been plowing the stream and
sowing dragon's teeth hereabouts.

-- 

Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,  || http://www.reutershealth.com
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau,           || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.            -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 11:42:08 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 + w3c-0.30 : Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:17:24 GMT