- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:07:19 -0400
- To: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 03:59 PM 5/16/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >The "commitment" is that when the W3C said in its Namespaces Rec that >matching was strictly char-by-char, they meant it, and people are >entitled to create documents that rely on it. > >The "vision" is that everything on the Web, including namespaces, is named by URIs, >and that the same rules for URI-reference interpretation apply to all >resources. Thanks, John - I just wasn't sure in which order the 'commitment' and 'vision' referred to RFC2396 or Namespaces in XML. >The root of the trouble, IMHO, is that the problem is essentially >moral/aesthetic, not technical at all. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but then I still haven't heard any plausible use cases beyond "Microsoft is using it in something no one will discuss". 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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