- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:31:11 -0400
- To: "David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 02:24 PM 5/16/00 -0400, David E. Cleary wrote: >> Other than fulfilling a dream of consistency, I can't see any good reason >> to support relative URIs in namespaces - ever. > >Whether there is a good reason or not, the fact is that there are documents >out there that adhere to the current specification that you would turn >invalid by your edict. I could not support this unless XML in its entirty is >reved to version 1.1. Are there in fact any such documents? I've yet to see a relative URI appear in a spec, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. 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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