- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:29:03 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 03:09 PM 6/10/00 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >I believe that the consensus was that the rec means exactly what it says, >that NS names are names that use URI syntax. > >I recall that an earlier rev of the spec provided for *two* URIs to be >attached to a NS prefix; one being the *name*, and one giving the reference >for the *schema*. The analogy to sgml's SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifiers was >strong, for those who cares. The schema pointer was abandoned, one of the >reasons was people like me arguing that the notion that dereferencing a >single URI was a hopelessly inadequate bridge from an instance to the >complex space of resources that might identify its semantics in whole >or part. -Tim So it sounds like a lot of our problems come from what's the equivalent of dereferencing a PUBLIC identifier without a catalog file, just because it looks like a SYSTEM identifier... Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com
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