RE: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace from Julian Reschke on 2000-06-07 (xml-uri@w3.org from June 2000)

From: Julian Reschke <reschke@muenster.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:36:07 +0200
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "David Carlisle" <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NCBBIPMOPKLLGKJPBINCEENIEFAA.reschke@muenster.de>

TBL wrote:
> It is a "conforming document" but that doesn't mean it makes any sense,
> as mailto:timbl@w3.org is my mailbox.  There are already a lot of
> connotations
> to it.  The identifier has been used. It is used in this message.
>  You can't
> reuse the same identifier for something quite different.

It's a string in URI ref syntax, and as long as the author uses it only
once, it's unique. So it's perfectly OK according to the namespace REC,
right?

> Please distinguish between the basic syntactic constraints of the
> specification
> and the meaning.

The namespace REC (currently) is about syntax, not meaning.

Julian

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 14:36:05 UTC