Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace from Paul W. Abrahams on 2000-06-06 (xml-uri@w3.org from June 2000)

From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 12:27:24 -0400
To: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
CC: xml-uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <393D266B.DA2F104@valinet.com>

John Aldridge wrote:

> Are you saying that
>
>     <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>     <jingle xmlns="mailto:john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk" />
>
> is not a well-formed XML-with-namespaces document?
> Or that, although well-formed, it's unprocessable?

It's neither ill-formed nor unprocessable.  But it's unexpected -- in the
sense that the namespace spec and the W3-specified namespace names give not
the slightest hint that such variants of URI were ever contemplated.

Paul Abrahams

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