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Re: How namespace names might be used

From: Clark C. Evans <cce@clarkevans.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:00:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
cc: michael@bailey.dscga.com, xml-uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006111047340.18405-100000@clarkevans.com>
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, David Carlisle wrote:
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
...
> <PS xmlns="http://www.adobe.com/dsc/3.0">

Why not...

  <PS xmlns="urn:pkg:1989,com.adobe.ps.3.0">
 
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >
> 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...

Exactly.  Given how fast a computer person needs to 
adapt to our changing environment, we don't need
to make their life harder by explaining that 
"http:" does not suggest a representation of 
resource retrievable with "hyper text transfer protocol"

Clark
Received on Sunday, 11 June 2000 11:08:54 GMT

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