- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 19:13:59 -0500
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote: > > Dan Connolly wrote: > > > But does that motivate a special exception to make namespace > > identifier syntax different from identifiers for all > > other Web resources? > > No. What people say is calling for an exception is the fact that > we already blessed a different interpretation, and cannot afford > (morally) to orphan documents (and piss off document authors) > that depend on it. Hang on... I haven't see any documents that would suffer from a revision of the namespace spec to say "expand the xmlns attribute value to absolute form before comparing it with other namespace names" ... I have only seen implementations that don't do it. A document such as <aDoc xmlns:a="./foo" xmlns:b="././foo"> <a:bat>baseball bat</a:bat> <b:bat>flying bat</b:bat> </aDoc> would suffer a change in interpretation under the "expand the xmlns..." change, but I haven't seen any evidence that such documents are in use. I understand the motivation for an exception based on interoperability with present implementations, but I don't see any motivation based on existing documents. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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