Re: The "deprecate/fixed-base" option

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Carlisle wrote:
> > 2) As an interpretation rule, all relative URI references are to be
> > absolutized relative to the fixed base URI
> > "http://www.w3.org/2000/Namespaces/base/"
> 
> Thinking about this a bit more, it would be better if a
> different protocol or hostname part could be used

I'd prefer a new protocol, one that does not imply 
that the namespace is a hypertext resource or 
mail box resource, etc.

> "http://relativenamespacenames.w3.org/2000/Namespaces/base/"

   xmlns:org.w3c.relns 

> Using the one you suggested (or the one I suggested earlier) would
> mean that  xmlns="../../../1998/Math/MathML" would be a valid
> declaration of MathML, which isn't very nice. 

Given "http://www.w3c.org/2000/Namespaces/base", what would
happen if my relative namespace is...

   "../../../../pop_empty_stack"

Clark