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

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:35:44PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Mealling wrote:
> > My point exactly! So if you want to use that URI as your namespace name
> > then whether or not its internal scheme is about mailboxes doesn't
> > matter. Its a perfectly valid name for a namespace (sans the persistence
> > requirement).
> 
> However, it makes it impossible to distinguish between the resource which is
> the namespace and the resource which is a document or a mailbox or a telnet
> interaction.  

Then don't do that.... 

> My approach assigns a distinct URI to every namespace by
> distinguishing between the namespace *name* (a string which happens to have
> the syntax of a URI *reference*) and the URI which identifies the namespace,
> instead of demanding that they be the same.

By sticking "data:," in front of it? Nothing about the 'data' scheme
makes this any different... Now if it were in a different
attribute with different semantics for what you could use something
in that attribute for, that would make sense. 

-MM

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Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 16:59:33 UTC