Re: Minimum required of a system called "Namespaces in XML"

At 06:20 PM 6/5/00 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>It is not clear that there is anything you can not do with xmlns="foo"
>that you could do with xmlns="mailto:michaelm@netsol.com"

You could reasonably use the latter to key a directory lookup...

>you can't use either to dereference any information

... hence obtain a "dereferencing" of a sort.

The scheme name of a URL merely suggests an _anticipated_ mechanism for 
dereferencing it.

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 15:04:52 UTC